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...every day anymore. It's not that you get tired, but your body just doesn't come back as fast as it did. You think you can swing the bat, but you're just a fraction off. The balls you used to hit out of the ballpark you're fouling off. I need more sleep now. Sometimes I'll lie down at 9 p.m. and sleep till...
...road Aaron draws up to 10,000 additional fans to the host team's ballpark. Last weekend in Cincinnati, the leftfield seats were pregame sellouts. At home, attendance remains woefully low because Atlanta is pre-eminently a football town, because the Braves are nowhere near being pennant contenders and because an Aaron home run is a common occurrence in a stadium that the players call "the launching pad." Nonetheless, the Braves and the city fathers are beating the promotional drums. Giant billboards have been erected to give Aaron's latest homer total. A street and school will...
...program and explicit objectives. We never considered an above ground building. We didn't want to change the Yard that much, and there's really no place to put an above ground building unless the President's House is removed. If that's removed, well then that's another ballpark...
...Southeast Asia at a time when domestic programs are being sharply restricted. Even the amount of money Nixon will seek has not been revealed. High Washington officials insisted that his previous estimate of $7.5 billion, of which $2.5 billion would be spent in North Viet Nam, was only a "ballpark," talking figure at the time, not to be taken too seriously...
Once they were the crown jewel of professional sport, a franchise whose very name was synonymous with big league success. But over the years, an archaic ballpark, a deteriorating neighborhood, and a roster of mediocre players have considerably dulled the sparkle of the New York Yankees. Last week the team's owners, the Columbia Broadcasting System, cut their losses by selling the Bronx Bombers for the modest sum of $10 million cash to a syndicate headed by Yankee President and CBS Executive Michael Burke...