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...then declared, "but it cannot be achieved by refighting a war that is finished, as far as America is concerned." Hartmann recalls, "As soon as the students heard the word 'finished' they almost literally raised the roof with whoops and hollers. They jumped up and down on the bleacher seats, hugging whoever popped up next...
...Brown game, a 2-0 Harvard victory which earned the Crimson an automatic bid to the tournament, all of the bleacher seats were immediately taken up and rowdy fans were pressed against the touchlines...
...Germans to a single goal before a crowd of 63,117 gathered in a great, poured-concrete tureen called Soldier Field. At the half, the temperature broke upon your cheek, hot enough for the back of a wristwatch to singe, and I, the only blue eye among distinguished Asian bleacher mates, remarked that someone could stir us and call us shabu-shabu. A mirthless response forced me to note that levity is a poor camouflage for the unlettered, even in sports...
With its Green Monster, quirky outfield, antiquated left-field scoreboard and famous bleacher seats, Fenway is perhaps more baseball than baseball itself--possessing an aura of authenticity shaming modern megabuck parks like Toronto's SkyDome and Baltimore's pseudo baseball-ish Camden Yards...
Cherish the moment, bleacher bums, for this April's budding of baseball may be our final frolic in the sun. Next year there might not be baseball at all, if the owners stick to their resolve not to open the spring-training camps unless the players agree to hold the line on salaries. Already the game has lost its supreme arbiter; for the first time since 1921, a season will open with no commissioner of baseball or heir apparent. In the counting houses off the field, schemes are being hatched to transform the leisurely unfolding of the 162-game season...