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...hours earlier, just about the time when Henry Aaron was taking his second to last whacks at batting practice, 150 of Philadelphia's ballpark salesmen walked...
...work?" and "Who is this guy anyway?" to occur. And while the police gently nudged the workers into an area where they would be less troublesome, the young college kids and the kids just out of high school listened to the vendors who held union jobs outside of the ballpark explaining how the union officials and representatives might not be representing the vendors' interests...
...town that has long looked for some characteristic to distinguish it from San Francisco across the bay, Oakland has been slow to seize on the distinction of the A's. Attendance at games in the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, a modern ballpark situated only a few minutes' drive from downtown Oakland (pop. 361,561), averages a meager 6,400 per game. And many of the fans who do show up come from communities half a day's drive away. Annoyed by the lack of support, the A's call their empty stadium "the mausoleum...
After the third dismissal, Dark dropped from sight for 2½ years and immersed himself in the Bible. When he came back to the ballpark last winter to accept the Oakland job, all his old fire seemed to be gone. The man who once overturned a buffet table in anger at a player, spraying the clubhouse with hot dogs and mustard, now says that managing is "all a feeling of love." Whether he can test that theory until October is uncertain. Both Finley and the players obviously read Bibles different from Dark...
Since the turn of the century, the sports that have attracted the masses have had the appeal of the unwritten contract: those who paid their way into the ballpark bought the right to be judge, jury, and hangman of the performers. The heroes chewed tobacco and prided themselves on looking fierce...