Word: candlestick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...making the natives restless-and right after that, I got real hungry and ate half the British garrison at Nsukka." The odds makers decided that the muscular Igbo tribesman was only half kidding. Last week, as he stepped into the outdoor ring at San Francisco's chilly Candlestick Park, Tiger was a 1-2 favorite to beat one of boxing's most durable champions: Middleweight Gene Fullmer, 31, the brawling, broken-nosed Mormon elder who won his title back in 1959, has successfully defended it seven times since...
With 120-m.p.h. winds and torrential rains lashing San Francisco, Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick waded through a Candlestick Park that the groundskeeper called "fit only for synchronized swimming," kept calling off the sixth game between the Giants and Yankees, thus making the 1962 World's Series the most oft-postponed since the six-day wait in 1911 when the Giants were playing the Philadelphia Athletics...
...Francisco even robbed its East Coast rivals of their most dangerous and traditional weapon--the home run ball. Used to swatting circuit blows in bunches, the baffled Bombers smashed only three homers in 63 innings of play at spacious Yankee Stadium and windswept Candlestick Park...
...Francisco's weather was clear and sunny Sunday, but a water-saturated out-field at Candlestick Park forced the third consecutive postponement of the sixth game of the 1962 World Series. The Giants' groundskeeper is certain that the field will be ready for a game today...
...Friday," said San Francisco manager Alvin Dark as he stalked off the field at Candlestick Park yesterday. The invading New York Yankees, with veteran lefthander Whitey Ford on the mound, had just beaten Dark's Giants 6-2. The playing was as lopsided as the score indicated...