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This season the Phillies have outdone themselves at losing. But far from bridling at unrelieved disaster, the fans have opened their hearts in sympathy. At the ballpark, the crowds have evaporated, to be sure-attendance is down some 281,000 from last season-but why pay $2.25 to witness a foregone conclusion? On the other hand, the Phillies' losing trail has been strewn with heartfelt messages of encouragement from as far off as Puerto Rico and Hawaii. "Hang in there and fight," read one. "We have faith that you'll shake this thing yet," read another. Wading last...
They were the same sort of Sunday spectators who used to fill the bleachers when Ebbets Field was still a ballpark and the Dodgers were still in Brooklyn. Shirt-sleeved rooters packed the grandstand at $1 a head. Some stripped to undershirts in the 80-degree heat; some parked their cars at the far side of the broad, green playing field, unfolded beach chairs and guzzled beer from jugs. The maroon-jerseyed home team drew loud cheers when it scored, derisive jeers when it flubbed...
...drooling Braves offered $115,000. They were turned down too. Milwaukee, Carl decided, was too far from Bridgehampton. The snooty New York Yankees were crossed off Yastrzemski's list when they made him dress with the batboys after a workout, refused to let his father into the ballpark without a pass. In the end, Carl accepted a Red Sox package that came to more than $100,000-including off-season board and tuition at Notre Dame...
...polar orbit, logged 1,000,000 miles in 31 turns around the earth, then, on signal popped its instrument capsule over the Pacific. As if that triumph of precision were not enough, an Air Force C-119 flying boxcar, one of nine planes covering a 12,500-sq.-mi. "ballpark" near Honolulu, snagged the parachuting capsule...
...exception that proved the rule, in spades: Hilary Belloc, son of British Author-Historian Hilaire Belloc, was letting out the anchor of a 36-ft. ketch when the chain tightened, cutting off half of his ring finger. While Belloc went on to the ballpark and got the remaining part of his finger bandaged at the stadium clinic, his 16-year-old son Martin searched in the shallow water, finally found the missing half. It was delivered to the clinic after Hilary Belloc had left, and was placed in a Dixie cup. Outside the park, Belloc heard that part...