Word: bleacher
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gwynn leading a whitebread team low on ego and high on winning. When the series opens in the Bronx on Saturday night, David Justice will be playing golf. Who are the Yankee fans supposed to scream profanities at? Gwynn? Hitchcock or Leyritz, both ex-Yankees? Not to worry -- the Bleacher Bums will think of something...
...field is being moved further into the stadium to give fans behind the end zone a better view and keep the possibility of putting in bleacher seats at the end closest to the Murr Center, Veneziano said...
...entourage occupies the first row of seats, to the "suits"--the Wall Streeters who rode the 4 train uptown to take in a game--to the elders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints who somehow always manage to comprise a significant chunk of the bleacher attendance, a mass of humanity totally blind to distinctions of class, race and creed bound together around a man who had been chased from the pastime in disgrace for cocaine addiction...
Come look at the freaks! Come gape at the geeks!" The minute those accusatory opening lines are sung, by 20 actors in bleacher seats facing the audience, you fear the worst. Side Show, the first new musical of the Broadway season, tells the real-life story of Daisy and Violet Hilton, Siamese twins who became a hit vaudeville act in the 1930s. Everybody is curious about such human oddities--and aren't you ashamed...
...game, Boston: I pay $10 to sit on the same bleacher as 20 friends. We can see the field, pretty much. We root for the home Sox against the Milwaukee Brewers...