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Green parks beckoned to picnickers; yellow Lake Erie beaches glittered with summer sun. At Municipal Stadium the first-place Indians turned out for baseball. But Cleveland seemed not to notice. Attendance at the ballpark dropped from a normal 30,000 to 11,000; business at parks and beaches dwindled to a standstill. The city was otherwise occupied. At schools, police stations and fire houses, thousands queued up for the privilege of swallowing sugar cubes impregnated with drops of Sabin oral polio vaccine...
Continuing, Brown taunted Nixon for having White House ambitions. "The top man for the opposition," he said, "is letting quite a few bounce off his glove. His problem is he doesn't know the ballpark. He has his mind and his eye on a grandstand about 3,000 miles east of here. And he's finding out you make a lot of errors when you try to play two games at once. He wants the people of California to turn Sacramento into a private bullpen so that he can start warming up for a second chance in another...
...baseball fan is probably the most set-upon spectator in sport. Insulted by ushers, gouged by concessionaires, he fights his way into a dirty, crowded ballpark, squeezes happily into a viselike seat -and often finds himself neatly positioned behind a post. Last week it seemed at last that the long-suffering spectator might be getting a break: around the major leagues were sprouting new stadiums designed to make watching more of a pleasure, less of a chore...
...suburban Flushing Meadows, N.Y., bulldozers were clearing the ground for a plush, $23 million ballpark that will house the National League's fledgling New York Mets. In Houston, construction gangs worked on the world's first domed, air-conditioned sports stadium-home next year of the National League's Houston Colt...
...showgirl, Ruth was the finest baseball player who ever lived. As a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, he won 46 games in two seasons, pitched 29 consecutive scoreless World Series innings-a record that still stands. As an outfielder, he joined a Yankee club that had no ballpark and had never won a pennant; his presence (backed up by the formidable figure of Lou Gehrig) turned the New Yorkers into the most fearsome team in baseball. To a sport that had been damaged by the "Black Sox" scandal of 1919, Babe Ruth's booming bat brought new virility...