Word: ballpark
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dismal stretch the Giants lost 11 in a row. It was a test of fire for loyal followers, and many a diehard, headed for Coogan's Bluff, was heard to mutter lamely that he was going out to the ballpark, only because he needed a sunbath. The lard-encased Manhattan saloonkeeper, Toots Shor, once spoke the agony of all Giant fans in one gloomy flirtation with apostasy. "I been wonderin' lately," he told a friend. "I'm raising my kids to be Giant fans. I don't know whether I'm doing the right thing...
...jinks than the sports pages suggest, given more to the somber dollars-and-cents business of winning ball games than the hero worshipers like to believe. The high-riding New York Giants of 1954 cling in curt, almost surly fashion to the stereotype-they get together in clubhouse and ballpark not to win friends but to win ball games. Even on the crest, as they were while clouting the Brooklyns six straight in a pair of recent series, the Giants were in no mood for skylarking...
...window and pleaded for autographs. No one offered an autograph, but one Giant raised his glass of beer and showered it on the kids. Hungry for a pennant, the Giants were suffering from the mean-spirited myopia that shrinks the ballplayer's world to the confines of a ballpark and welcomes no outsiders...
Like the players, the major-league owners are taking some second looks at TV. Their continuing fear is that fans will sit at home watching games on TV rather than loyally buy tickets at the ballparks. Milwaukee has flatly refused to allow any Braves games on TV. Philadelphia is limiting TV to day games, while Detroit bans the TV cameras not only at night but on Sundays and holidays, and St. Louis will televise home games only when the ballpark is sold out. Baltimore, a majorleague newcomer, will broadcast 26 home games and 30 on the road. And Cleveland...
Next season, the Browns, rechristened the Orioles,* will move into Baltimore's rebuilt, 51,000-seat municipal stadium, which will be the fourth biggest ballpark in the majors...