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Debarking at the wharf, we joined a horde of summer tourists. Strangely, the trinkets, baubles and waxworks did not appeal to us. Our chief interest was food, our lunch having been typical ballpark fare of hot dogs and beer...
...Rice doesn't exist except as a baseball player, save for his close friends and family. In the ballpark, though, loping out to the outfield, matching steps with Freddie Lynn like the first two mustangs out of the canyon to sniff the expanse, or kneeling in the on deck circle coiled like a spring, or straightening up, breathing hard at first base after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane...
...urge. "Every other game's got a clock. Why not baseball?" he asks. "There's a rule on the books that pitchers must pitch every 20 seconds. But we've got guys out there who throw every half-hour. Let's put up a 20-second clock in every ballpark. If it runs out before the pitcher throws, charge him with a ball. That'll speed things...
Meanwhile, the metricization of America is already taking place. Individual federal agencies, school systems, states and industries, as well as radio announcers, supermarkets, beverage bottlers and ballpark scoreboards, are hastening the everyday use of meters, liters and grams. Items...
...Worse than the movie of The Day of the Locust," No hopes for Tony C. could hold this crowd much longer--school was out, as far as they were concerned, and even in the year of busing and boycotts I guess that called for something special. Admission to the ballpark, at least...no pretzel vendor, not even the sunniest Opening Day sky, was going to hold them out in the street much longer...