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Year after year, I would count down the days until baseball returned. On that fateful day, skipping school, I would stand in line for bleacher tickets. On the trolley, everyone seemed to be wearing a Red Sox cap, carrying a radio and talking baseball...
Before the Red Sox began selling bleacher tickets in advance, standing in line was almost as much an event as the actual game. In '77 my sister and I were nearly trampled to death by an obese Cleveland man and his wife, as we waited for over three hours in a line that extended to Kenmore Square...
When Reardon last year asked Oomen to look into possibilities at Briggs Cage, the ancient indoor track facility and baseball cage built in 1927, the planner emerged with the idea of creating in Briggs a unique basketball court with 2700 bleacher seats and an astroturf surface that can be easily rolled out to cover the entire floor, accommodating, baseball, lacrosse and other sports in inclement weather...
...losing Cardinals did not seem to affect the band's performance--and vice versa--but the band successfully won the attention of the bleacher crowds. Doucette said that the 3000-mile journey was worth it "to show the people in Boston how to have a good time." Band leader Steve Pappas--a ringer for Roger Daltry--seemed to be doing just that. His long bleached curls flopped up and down for two hours, as much a part of the show as the human redwood trees that danced around the musicians...
...pitchers in a bit too long and free ze up with a microphone in his face, but he has established a serenity which lets Reggie & Co. concentrate on baseball instead of squabbling. Pleased with Howser's "I'll shut up if you will" approach, Jackson has been blessing bleacher fans all year with a steady stream of tape measure rockets...