Word: bandbox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Perhaps that's what made him try show biz. He had won money in the Charlie Chaplin impersonation contests that were the craze at local vaudeville houses. Midway in his junior year at East High School, he dropped out to become a dancer at Cleveland's Bandbox Theater. His partners in subsequent years included a pair of Siamese twins and a neighborhood girl, Mildred Rosenquist. Years later, Hope said that "we would make seven or eight bucks, and I would split it with her." Mildred, now a California housewife, challenges that claim to this day. "Bob told...
...away by four teams in three years, hit 26 homers for the Reds. Reserve Outfielder Jerry Lynch, woefully weak on defense, batted over .400 as a pinch hitter. Catcher Darrell Johnson, a Yankee castoff, hit a lusty .333. First Baseman Gordy Coleman, obtained from Cleveland, found Cincinnati's bandbox Crosley Field to his liking, collected 25 home runs...
...month to go, the Yankees seem certain to better the major league mark of 221 home runs. CJ The Los Angeles Angels and Baltimore Orioles sent six home runs sailing out of the Angels' Wrigley Field, to push the season's total in the West Coast bandbox to 204. Previous American League record for an individual ball park was 200. set at Detroit's Briggs Stadium in 1959. Next target for the American Leaguers: the major league record of 219 set at Cincinnati's Crosley Field...
...basketball, least of all his enemies, can afford to call Belmont Abbey's McGuire a jerk. By all rights, his adopted school should be the smallest in smalltime basketball: its bandbox gymnasium has only 500 permanent seats; players must clean their own uniforms. But under Al McGuire, Belmont Abbey has developed almost overnight into one of the nation's best small-college teams. Last week, winning two games out of three in Virginia's Quantico Tournament, Belmont Abbey's boys boosted Al McGuire's won-and-lost record to a gaudy 67-14 since...