Word: candlestick
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the Giants. The enthusiasm he met startled the Washington newsmen in his entourage. His appearance in Candlestick Park brought a standing ovation from the 43,000 fans, normally a crusty lot. Minutes later when California's own Democratic Governor Edmund ("Pat") Brown stood up, no one else did, and the fans let out a deep-throated "BOO-OO-OO."* The players seemed to feel the same way. Nixon, a sports-page reader who knows the major leagues, made himself at home in locker room and dugout, kidded Giant First Baseman Willie McCovey about the weight...
...land, sea and air, a capacity crowd of 42,269 San Franciscans last week flocked to see their baseball Giants open the National League season against the St. Louis Cardinals-and to help open their last-word, $15 million Candlestick Park. There has been nothing quite like it since the Romans, who had to struggle along by chariot, converged on the Colosseum...
Home in the Horseshoe. Since Candlestick Park is on a peninsular sort of culdesac, many a San Franciscan feared a traffic jam to end all traffic jams. But on opening day there was not much cause for worry: Candlestick's 8,500-car parking lot was left 2,000 shy of capacity. Dreading to drive, hundreds of San Franciscans came by seaplanes, helicopters, sail and motor boats. It was all remarkably orderly...
...Candlestick is built for the customer-particularly if he happens to have a fat billfold. In the section known as "the Golden Horseshoe," and selling at $500 per place for the 76-day home season, each box is equipped with private lockers, tables, telephones, and, on call, waiters (last week the waiter service was not quite ready). For San Francisco's often chilly weather, there is radiant heating under the seats...
Shells in the Eye. At first, the only persons with reservations about Candlestick were the ballplayers. Candlestick was apparently contrived to make the worst of San Francisco's constant winds. Said the Giants' Willie Mays, after clouting two monumental drives during practice and seeing them land, wind-slowed, just short of the 397-ft. leftfield fence: "This park is too big. Somebody's gonna get some salary cuts around here." Said Giant First Baseman Willie McCovey, after his initial experience with wind-blown debris from the stands: "The peanut shells kept getting in my eyes...