Word: abbotts
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Broadway, that fabulous invalid, never looked frailer or more gallant, never seemed more aware of its glorious past and its tenuous future, than on Tony Award night this past June. Musty old plays and musicals hogged the spotlight from newer works. Producer George Abbott, 106 years old and looking every minute of it, showed up to remind the assembled swells and the TV audience that Damn Yankees, which he had confected four decades ago, was again the liveliest show in town. The cathedral of commercial theater had reopened as a museum and a mausoleum. The place was awash in memories...
...celebrates great hitters like Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio, great characters like Casey Stengel and Rube Waddell (who had to be restrained from chasing fire engines during games), great disasters like the Merkle Boner and the 1919 Black Sox scandal. It gives us Red Barber's famous radio calls, Abbott and Costello's "Who's on First?" routine and more versions of Take Me Out to the Ball Game than you imagined were possible. For baseball lovers it's the World Series, All-Star Game and Fan Appreciation Day rolled into one, with all the hot dogs and frosty malts...
TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Oakland 7:05 Darling (5-9) at Boston Vanegmond (0-1) Seattle 7:05 Johnson (9-4) at New York Abbott(7-5) Minnesota 7:05 Erickson (7-5) at Cleveland Morris (6-5) California 7:35 Magrane (2-4) at Baltimore Mussina (11-4) Milwaukee 8:05 Scanlan _0-4_ at Chicago McDowell (4-7) Toronto 8:05 Stottlemyre (5-5) at Kansas City Appier (5-6) Detriot 6:35 Gohr (2-0) at Texas Brown (5-8) NATIONAL LEAGUE Atlanta 7:35 Avery (5-2) at Florida Gardner (2-2) Cincinnati...
AMERICAN LEAGUE Cleveland 7.05 Nagy (3-3) at Boston Darwin (7-2) Baltimore 2:05 Moyer (1-3) at Milwaukee Ignasiak (1-0) Seattle 3:15 Johnson (4-3) at Oakland Darling (3-5) Toronto 7:05 Hentgen (6-3) at New York Abbott (5-2) California 7:05 Farrell (1-0) at Detroit Doherty (5-3) Minnesota 8:05 Pulido (2-3) at Chicago Fernandez (4-5) Texas 8:05 Brown (3-6) at Kansas City Appier...
TODAY'S GAMES AMERICAN LEAGUE Baltimore 7:05 Moyer (1-2) at New York Abbott (4-2) Milwaukee 7:05 Ignasiak (1-0) at Detroit Doherty (4-3) Cleveland 7:35 Nagy (3-2) at Toronto Hentgen (5-3) Boston 8:05 Hesketh (2-1) at Minnesots Erickson (4-4) Kansas City 10:05 Granger (0-1) at California Magrane (0-2) Chicago 10:05 Fernandez (3-5) at Oakland Darling (3-4) Texas 10:35 Pavlik (0-1) at Seattle Johnson (3-3) NATIONAL LEAGUE San Fransisco 3:20 Burkett (3-3) at Chicago Trachel (4-3) St. Louis...