Word: ballparks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strict Headmaster Peters, a man more respected than loved by his boys, would be turning over a $2,000,000, 36-acre campus (built in his own regime) on the edge of Cleveland's suburban Shaker Heights. Its assets included a big-league style ballpark, three football fields, 13 tennis courts, a quarter-mile track. Peters used to pitch on the faculty team himself, until a few years ago could beat the school's ace tennists, still does daily...
...Boston Red Sox. He was daring, aggressive, and understanding of his men. But he also let himself be second-guessed too often from the front office. He got philosophical about it: "God gets you up in the morning in good health and guides you safely through traffic to the ballpark. When your turn comes, He takes you by the hand and leads you up to the plate. Then He taps your shoulder. 'Son,' He says, 'you take it from here'-and drops you flat on your puss." When the lowly Philadelphia Phillies fired him three years...
...biggest worry to a series commentator is the reaction of the fans away from the ballpark. "They don't know the park and can't visualize exactly what's happening," says Corum, in his gin-croak voice. "Like last year, when the ball got away from the outfielders and was lost in the shrubs. I said: 'This is like town lot baseball; they've even lost the ball in the weeds.' And then I annoyed 'em when I told again what lousy baseball they were playing. I think I said...
...alarmed gurgle came from 32,000 throats at Brooklyn's Ebbets Field. Nothing quite like it had been heard in a big-league ballpark since Connie Mack picked gimpy-armed Howard Ehmke to pitch (and win) the first game of the 1929 World Series. The announcer said that Ralph Branca, winner of just one game all season, would be the Dodger pitcher in the final do-or-die series with the St. Louis Cardinals...
...Williams' reputation as the 23 homers he had walloped for the Red Sox. Almost everybody forgot the sad all-star performance of the National Leaguers (who got whitewashed 12-0). Visiting sportswriters who knew the prewar Williams as a sulky swatter whose hitting was good and ballpark behavior was bad wrote glowing stories acclaiming him for what he was: the best hitter in baseball...