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...Negro who is afraid to fight back?" "On the contrary," said Rickey, "I'm looking for a ballplayer with guts enough not to fight back. They'll taunt you, goad you. Anything to make you fight. Anything to bring about a race riot in the ballpark. If they succeed, they'll be able to prove that having a Negro in baseball doesn't work...
...Ballpark. Hart & Co. are placing much of their hopes for victory in a massive registration drive among the some 25 million young people between 18 and 24 who will be eligible to vote for the first time, partly because of the new 18-year-old voting age. The drive will be helped by a 1970 congressional act that outlaws residency requirements longer than 30 days in presidential elections. Those two legal changes mean, says Dutton, that "the shape of the ballpark has changed; past patterns are no longer valid." A study by Student Vote, a nonpartisan group trying to mobilize...
While in Florida, they will stay at the Holiday Inn in north St. Petersberg. The team will be practicing and playing most of its games in Miller Higgens Ballpark, spring practice home of the New York Mets...
...stage was set for game No. 7 in Baltimore, where the Orioles, having blocked the Pirates from one record, faced a historic hurdle of their own: no World Series team had ever before won all four of the games played in its own ballpark...
...symptoms are familiar. What's bothering Blue of late is the mounting crunch of success. Says he: "You go to a town and the newspapers say 'sensational this' and 'sensational that,' and there may be 30,000 or 40,000 people out there at the ballpark. They're all staring and wondering whether I'm for real, whether I'm a robot, whether I'm human. There's a guy on third and nobody out, and they expect you to strike out the side. Not maybe two ground balls and a strikeout. No, three straight strikeouts they want. Nine straight...