Word: bleachers
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...fans around me had turned with a smile, obviously knowing a newcomer was about to get the full treatment from a bleacher sage...
Inside Wrigley, though, there is a very distinctive flavor, most of it found among the thin row of bleacher seats that line the left and right field corners. Every ballpark seems to attract its characters in the "cheap seats." Suntan lotion, lots of cold beer and a very vocal commentary on the lighter side of baseball often characterize the bleacher crowd. And the fans at Wrigley are no exception...
...Chicago they've been dubbed the "Bleacher Bums," and they spend the game arguing about location supremacy. The rightfielders yell, "Left Field sucks," and the leftfielder retort with an equally imaginitive barb. And mixed in among the diehard scorekeepers, the beer guzzling fixtures and the cheerleading rowdies, there float the bleacher wisemen--bastions of baseball lore who are no less than bold in making their thoughts well known...
During one game recently, as the second-place Cubs were battling the division-leading Montreal Expos in the last contest of a four game series, one of these bleacher prophets discovered me, taking advantage of a day off and trying to get a tan while the Cubs and the Expos staged their version of Baseball a la Boring...
...even reached the box office yet. I began wondering if my Yankee loyalty was authentic or if it was merely a circumstance of being raised in upstate New York. Could it be that I never had been exposed to the "thrill" of Fenway? The Green Monster, Fenway Franks, bleacher anarchy, unrestrained fans, and nearly as much tradition as in The Big Apple? For a while I was scared. But when I finally entered the Park and gazed over the infield, I realized that I was intimidated by all these people who were--unanimously--more partial to the Red Sox than...