Word: ballpark
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whose columns appear in TIME, returned to baseball during the summer of 1976 to see how his favorite sport was getting along. From April to October, he traveled-to a town in Arkansas where locals watch college students do or die for old John Brown University; to a seedy ballpark in Pittsfield, Mass., where a minor league team plays to empty stands; to a sun-hammered field in Puerto Rico where children try to emulate the feats of the late Roberto Clemente; to Cincinnati, where a country boy named Johnny Bench has parlayed his skills as a catcher into...
...close friend, found a much-coveted radio waiting in his locker after a tearful flight back from Atlanta. Said Harrelson: "That radio of his has been in the clubhouse since the beginning of time. I couldn't take it home because it's like part of the ballpark itself. That part of him is still here." For New York baseball fans, it is small consolation. For the rest of the league, Seaver's transplantation is terrifying news. At week's end baseball's best pitcher led baseball's best team...
...decision to accept a student-athlete still rests with the admissions committee. Because a coach cannot guarantee admission to a good athletic prospect, he or she runs the risk of wasting effort to promote an unsuccessful candidate. "You don't get a kid interested who's not in the ballpark," Lee says, but even then there is a danger of misjudging badly. Lee recounts the story of a how he courted one wrestler--who has since gone on to post a phenomenal NCAA tournament record--with hopes of Harvard admission, only to see the committee reject him. The rejection soured...
Matthews says that despite the illegality of scalping, "there's really nothing we can do about it. I think everybody just wants to get into the ballpark somehow...
...action outside Yankee Stadium was worthy of Stanley Kubrick's chiller: gangs of youths rampaged, snatching tickets from fans, breaking into parked cars, seizing a city bus, attempting unsuccessfully to get into the stadium. An attractive woman was shoved face-first into a concrete wall outside the ballpark, and while she bleated in terror, three patrolmen watched unmoving. Pickpockets bumped profitably through the crowd lifting wallets, and young thugs from the wasteland of the South Bronx grabbed women's bottoms and tore open bodies. Some 500 uniformed New York police supposedly guarding the stadium had made no more...