Word: ballpark
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...glamor franchise -- the New York Yankees -- from their fabled home in the Bronx. TIME sportswriter Steve Wulf says Yankee owner George Steinbrenner should think again about the prospective move. "This would not be in the best interests of baseball or New York City," says Wulf. "Steinbrenner wants a 'trophy ballpark,' somewhere to take his friends. He'd also like the extra revenue from the luxury boxes. He doesn't particularly care about New York or feel any great tie to the city." The $400 million stadium proposal would be part of the Meadowlands sports complex, which is currently home...
WELCOME TO THE SHOW was plastered all over the Ballpark in Arlington, Texas, which is where the virtues and vices, the chaos and order, the light and dark side of baseball came together for the All-Star Game. The "Tornado," Hideo Nomo, touched down, of course, and everyone was eager to see the Dodgers' Japanese rookie with the outrageous windup and the diabolical fork ball. But while Nomo was tailed by 150 Japanese journalists and almost as many American ones, a bookish-looking Atlanta Brave went largely unnoticed, even though Greg Maddux is the best pitcher of this generation. That...
...nothing compared to that of a Texas pitcher named Ed Vosberg. He may never be an All-Star, but Vosberg, who makes $125,000 a year with the Rangers, did become the Hugh Grant of baseball when he was cited for scalping his All-Star Game tickets outside the ballpark. For Ed it was almost "Welcome to the Hoosegow...
...Client and Clear and Present Danger (best-seller adaptations, also with reliable stars) and about True Lies (Arnold, armed, dangerous and in his best mode, the high-tech thriller). All these movies did all right--a little bit less or a little bit more than expected, but in the ballpark, if not always in the field of dreams. But they weren't Gump or Pulp or Weddings, either. That is to say, the sneaky, relatively unheralded, relatively inexpensive latter have probably turned a better profit than the relatively expensive former--at least...
...addition, the enjoyment and excitement of a day at the ballpark as an out-of-the-ordinary break from a busy life is not particularly enhanced by the quality of play...