1. Becoming a hooligan within the Rowdies group is not a simple matter.

2. 28 Other social roles within the Rowdies group were much less easy to isolate.

3. "The Summer of Beer and Whiskey: How Brewers, Barkeeps, Rowdies, Immigrants, and a Wild Pennant Fight Made Baseball America's Game" grabbed my attention at the outset and simply never let go

4. The OED says the origin is uncertain, but possibly refers to “bloods” (aristocratic rowdies) of the late 17th-early 18th centuries … “Bloody drunk” arising from ‘”drunk as a blood” … and the association with Bloody battle, Bloody butcher, etc., “appealed to the imagination of the rough classes.”