Word: cincinnati
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Atlanta Braves Chairman William Bartholomay announced last month that Aaron would be benched during the team's opening series in Cincinnati so that Atlanta fans could have a chance to see the historic blows-Nos. 714 and 715-hit at home. Bartholomay conveniently did not mention that those de serving rooters had numbered barely 16,000 at the 53,000-seat Atlanta Stadium when Aaron hit his 700th home run last summer and that only 2,800 had shown up the night Aaron...
...years," said Aaron, "I'd like to be able to walk out of my home in Atlanta some afternoon and say, 'That's where I broke Babe Ruth's record.' I don't want to have to take a plane to Cincinnati...
Carlton Fisk, Yastrzemski and Orlando Cepeda present a powerful hitting attack, and the Sox are also looking for Bernie Carbo, a former St. Louis Cardinal and Cincinnati Red, to start living up to his potential. Missing from the attack, of course, is Reggie Smith. His value to the team last year was, at best, questionable...
...national committees of both parties gave most of their attention to the race in Ohio's First District, which encompasses the eastern half of Cincinnati and suburban Hamilton County. The district is mostly white collar and prosperous; in 1972 it gave 70.3% of the vote to Republican William J. Keating, who resigned late last year. To succeed him, both parties nominated well-known and longtime city councilmen: Democrat Thomas Luken, 49, a lawyer and former Assistant U.S. Attorney; and Republican Willis Gradison Jr., 45, a wealthy stockbroker. Both had served as mayor-in Cincinnati, a post filled by vote...
...Election Day, the Cincinnati Enquirer interviewed 819 voters leaving the polls; it found that the strongest single factor in the election was disapproval of Nixon, especially among Independents. As Mrs. Susan Levy explained, "Gradison is the better candidate, but a vote for him is a vote for Nixon." Added another housewife: "I feel so badly. I grew up on the same street with Bill, and he is the better candidate, but I voted for Luken as a protest against Nixon." Gradison lost by 51,057 votes to 55,171. Later, he refused to blame Watergate for his defeat but complained...