Word: ballpark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...could feel it breathing as I hustled to bat," he recalls, "or maybe it was smothering from inhaling dandruff." Anyway, Casey walked to the batter's box brandishing five bats as if he were going to knock down the ballpark. The stands booed. Casey stepped to the plate, waited until the pitcher was about to throw, then called time. Elaborately he went through the motions of getting a cinder out of his eye. The Brooklyn stands roared with fury...
...mitt is thrust out as if to fend off destruction. Exactly 60 ft. 6 in. straight ahead of him, the pitcher looms preternaturally large on his mound of earth. As he crouches close to the ground, his field of vision gives him his own special view of the vast ballpark. The white foul lines stretch to the distant fences; the outfielders seem to be men without legs. Between him and the flycatchers, from the far outfield grass to the brown base paths, the rest of the team twitches nervously in place. In a sense, the game belongs...
...hopped out, donned a uniform and joined the practice. But now Busch spends much less time with his disappointing team. Last year the Cardinals finished sixth; this year they are fighting to keep out of seventh place. After investing $7,800,000 on buying the team and improving the ballpark (changed from Sportsman's Park to Busch Stadium), Busch desperately wanted a winner. When he did not get it, out went Manager Eddie ("The Brat") Stanky, in came Manager Harry ("The Hat") Walker, a hustling player-manager from the Cardinals' Rochester farm who, Busch hoped, would give...
Last summer, Chicago's Arnold Johnson, a vending-machine tycoon, thought he could simply put $3,375,000 in the slot and get himself a ball team. Millionaire Johnson happened to own the stadium of the minor league Kansas City Blues, the town's only big ballpark (he is also part owner of New York's Yankee Stadium). The nearest major-league town, St. Louis, was more than 250 miles away, he argued, and Kansas City was full of potential fans. Even the A's Connie Mack, 91, Grand Old Man of Baseball, agreed that...
...Philadelphia was not always enthusiastic about the A's. Between 1901, when the American League was founded, and 1950, when he finally stepped down as manager, the Grand Old Man of Baseball won nine pennants. But even when the team was winning, there were empty seats in the ballpark. In 1914 Connie broke up his famous $100,000 infield ("Home-Run" Baker, Jack Barry, Eddie Collins and Stuffy Mclnnis) for ready cash...