Word: ballpark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...team was losing too many games; too many fans were staying away from the ballpark; even the sportswriters were unhappy. In the tradition of big-league baseball there was nothing for the Cleveland Indians to do but fire their field manager, Kerby Farrell. But General Manager Hank Greenberg, the Hall of Fame slugger, had already done that. It was his biggest mistake. He had left no one to fire but himself. Last week the Indians did just that...
...team bus and tying up traffic on the way to a game with his piercing imitation of a police whistle. His pretty wife Mary, a onetime Charleston, W. Va. telephone operator, cannot understand why everyone does not love him. Home from an afternoon of fidgeting in the ballpark, Lew is a fond father who likes to stretch out in the living room and turn the hi-fi to blasting-level for Dixieland or "grand ole opry" records. He amuses his children-Lewis Kent, 6, Madge Rhea, 2, and Mary Lou, three weeks-with his West Virginia version of yodeling...
...vast majority of viewers saw even the colorcasts in the black-and-white version, color demanded cameras three times as bulky (and balky), and the engineers had to "paint" constantly with their control knobs to cope with changes in lighting and color temperature. Their pains reproduced some vivid ballpark atmosphere. The grass sometimes turned Kentucky blue and the shaded areas filled with indigo murk, but improved equipment averted the blind shadows that plagued the first (and only previous) color Series...
...that evening, the parents began to worry for fair. Then the truants arrived in a taxi. The parents demanded an immediate explanation. In a town that takes its Little Leagues seriously (the Mountainville League that the Jets belong to has a total of 270 players and the only regulation ballpark in town), the truth hurt. The two boys were not gadabouts; they were Little League "contract jumpers...
...guest of the visiting Baltimore Orioles (he had met Manager Paul Richards while vacationing near the Orioles' Arizona training camp), while Dwight was the first-ball pitcher and No. 1 rooter for the Washington Senators. Before Edgar left Washington, he hit the brotherly differences clear out of the ballpark...