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Cleveland's defensive secondary was similarly gifted but vain. Cornerbacks Hanford Dixon and Frank Minnifield barked like dogs at their own great plays. Bones began to fly out of the grandstands, and a wooden doghouse became a bleacher fixture (until one Sunday a security guard noticed it took more fans to carry it in than out, and investigating, found a keg of beer inside). After last January's narrow play-off loss in Miami, the 8-8 Browns were plainly getting better but were still 17 years between postseason victories...
...single change of lead, the home advantage started to seem a curse, though not to Ron Darling. The unlucky loser of the series' first decision ran his streak of unearned runs to 14 innings in the fourth game, better than any daydream he could have invented as a Fenway bleacher child. Hawaiian born, he said, "I've never quite understood why my parents moved from Hawaii to Massachusetts anyway." Referring to homegrown Boston Catcher Rich Gedman, Darling was particularly proud that "two guys from a place where players aren't supposed to come from are together in the World Series...
...complete stranger had just offered two of my friends $400 for a pair of bleacher seats to Game 3 of the World Series. Row 37 of the bleachers, for that matter. About 500 feet from home plate. Four hundred dollars...
...that matter, you could purchase 100 bleacher tickets at Fenway Park for regular-season games. You and 99 of your closest friends could have an old-fashioned bleacher bash Or, alternatively, you and your closest friend could attend 50 regular-season games--well over half the home games in an entire season...
John Jacobson '90 and Jeffery Kuo '90, both of Weld Hall, were among the lucky few who had tickets to the big game. They went to Fenway Sunday evening and waited overnight to purchase their bleacher seats...