Word: ballfield
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...altar, in the parking garage press room, at least ten people are making use of the hundred-odd typewriters laid out on row after row of tables. The press struggles to cover the event, their efforts hampered because the press area is in the bleachers of the papal ballfield. The radio and TV people fight to get their equipment working; photographers jockey for front-row seats, but with most of the press corps aboard the bus following the papal motorcade, the major topic of conversation among scribes stranded at the Common is why the ladies delegated to serve lunch...
...heap after his 10-1 year last year. He is a legitimate pro prospect, with a fastball that sends the JUGS gun into the high 80s, a knack for changing speeds well, and a personality that just exudes baseball. You see Larry Brown on the ballfield just once and you almost have to think that he was born in a dugout...
This attitude didn't preclude sports as an activity for men. In a South House handbook, Grant Segal '76 praised the Quad as a ballfield, writing, "the House you've been told has no one but tea drinkers and folk dancers is the best House for sports. To a man whose masculinity depends on his jockdom, saying he is the star of a Radcliffe team won't solve his problem. (But then, nothing will. If, man or woman, you're with good sports and teammates, then South House is your place...
...later with the Boston Red Sox, he made a place for himself in the major leagues. "I spent years attempting to master a number of foreign languages," he said, "and what happens? I turn out to be a catcher and am reduced to sign language on the ballfield...