Word: bleacher
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...Brooklyn Dodgers strode to the plate, one after the other hit home runs to win the game, 6-5. The feat, staged by Duke Snider, Randy Jackson and Gil Hodges, was only the latest record of a baseball season in which the steady drumfire of home runs has made bleacher-sitting pleasantly hazardous and baseball fans doggedly argumentative...
...scratch his head thoughtfully, for here wasn't the glamour to which he was accustomed, the glamour of a big Saturday game with all the trappings. In the place of cheerleaders and huge concrete stadium were other members of the team sitting on the four-tiered wooden bleacher wrapped in parkas against the cold...
...fans are more lively, too; not even in enemy Ebbets Field is the razzberry rendered with such enthusiasm. Nor do U.S. bleacher jockeys often get involved in the free-for-alls that brighten the Puerto Rican afternoon. Not long ago, a cop caught a razor-blade salesman handing out free samples in the San Juan stands. Puerto Rican fans have never been known to shave between innings, but they are apt to find other uses for razors...
Right up to game time at the Polo Grounds last week, odds that the Cleveland Indians would take the World Series were 9 to 5. After a long, loud summer, second-guessing Managers Leo Durocher and Al Lopez, the nation's sportswriters, smart-money boys and Sunday-afternoon bleacher jockeys all had an easy explanation: Cleveland's pitching was too good. Even with their patchwork infield, the Indians had won 111 games. How could they lose a short series...
...Cardinals are the only team in town, and the muggy Midwestern summer is never so dismal that it cannot be brightened by the sight of Stan Musial at the plate or the pleasure of second-guessing hard-luck Manager Eddie Stanky. For a few weeks this spring, the bleacher jockeys even got a kick out of razzing Rookie Wally Moon in the outfield. "Where's Enos?" they would yell. Did that lanky, crew-cut college boy really think he could fill in for Enos ("Country"') Slaughter...