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...Luci and I split a house with others at the Jersey shore, we had taken in a few Trenton Thunder games. A kid named Garcia-something was playing short for the Sox Double-A club that year, and he was worth watching. I was charmed by the lovely riverside ballfield, and the family-friendly feel of the games. There was a big, stuffed, Double-A quality mascot named Boomer and several Double-A quality contests between innings. I could tell a new science was being applied to minor league games; no doubt this was behind the bushies' upsurge. Good stuff...
...Even I, a lowly Mets fan from New Jersey, have always observed opening day with reverence, but the temple was not Shea Stadium, but Albion Park in Clifton, N.J. Baseball season was not baseball season and springtime had not yet sprung unless I, too, was on the ballfield...
...better than an amusement park. The Angels had built stands and converted the old high school park into a real ballfield, but the close, low stands made it possible to chat with players...
April snow showers, coating nearly every ballfield in New England, three times delayed the 115th Harvard baseball opener. When the Crimson nine finally took their places at Soldiers, held Wednesday afternoon, the sun was shining, the field was dry, but a strong wind blew across the open a tea Only the dedicated braved their way to the doubleheader: with Northeastern, and by the start of the second game, fewer than 20 fans--most of whom were other Harvard students--sat in the rather modest first baseline stands...
...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...