Word: ballpark
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Second Game was a Yankee debacle. Starting Pitcher Don Larsen went into the second inning six runs in front, thanks to Berra's grand-slam home run. Incredibly, the big lead was not enough. The Dodgers' old men began to rattle hits all over the ballpark, capped by Duke Snider's three-run homer. Before the inning was over Brooklyn, too, had six runs and Larsen was taking a shower. Don Newcombe, the Dodgers' 27-game winner who seems constitutionally incapable of winning in the series, failed again, unhappily slouched off the field under the Yankees...
Chances are, the sellout crowd would have come anyway. Toronto's citizens are soft touches for sports; they would have packed the Maple Leafs' ballpark for a dog show-especially one that got the magnificent ballyhoo laid down for last week's hoked-up "world heavyweight championship" squabble. The figures: that elegant gypsy, Light Heavyweight Champion Archie Moore, and Canadian Heavyweight Champion James J. Parker, otherwise known as the Saskatoon Statue...
...with a promise to keep present President Walter O. ("Spike") Briggs Jr. on the payroll as executive vice president. No one ever paid more for a major league team. (Previous record: $4,550,000, paid by Brewer August A. Busch for the St. Louis Cardinals and ballpark in 1953.) For their money, Fred Knorr and his friends got an arguable bargain: a ball club with vague promise and an all too real position in the second division of the American League. But Fred Knorr was not in the least doubtful about his purchase. "Detroit is the best baseball town...
...Leon Avenue is Atlanta's main thoroughfare from the east, and it carries heavy traffic during the rush hours. A time clock system has long been used to favor incoming movement in the morning and outgoing movement in the late afternoon, but unexpected bursts of traffic from the ballpark, churches and stores often jam the avenue. Designed to forestall such traffic emergencies, the new system, made by Eastern Industries, Inc., has proved remarkably successful...
...best. He was in Pittsburgh as manager of the Pirates when Coxey's Army marched on Washington in 1894; he was manager of Milwaukee in the Western League when Dewey took Manila in 1898. And when MacArthur landed at Inchon in 1950, Mr. Mack was still at the ballpark. He was 87, and he had been manager of the Philadelphia Athletics for half a century...