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DIED. Eleanor Gehrig, 79, widow of New York Yankee Star Lou Gehrig; in New York City. A high-spirited Chicago socialite, Eleanor Twitchell met the baseball slugger at Chicago's Comiskey Park and married him in 1933. Their life together, dramatized in the 1942 movie The Pride of the Yankees and the 1977 TV film A Love Affair, ended after eight years, with his death at 37 of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis...
...White Sox scout might have found Kittle, but the fact that it was Pierce means something to South Siders, who are also pleased to recall that it was Peg-Legged Bill Veeck who signed the young slugger. For Veeck still owned the team in 1978 and was presiding at Comiskey Park on the famous September day when Ron Kittle came...
...April of 1980, after Baltimore Oriole pitcher Dennis Martinez was beaned by a fan-propelled beer bottle at Chicago's Comiskey Park Red Smith wrote in The New York Times. There must be hoodlums who attend the theater or opera or ballet as well as baseball, football and hockey games, but they never throw things at the actors, and only certifiable crackpots try to slash the Mona Lisa or take a hammer to Michelangelo's Pieta Generally speaking, it is only at sports events that violence is done Customers who wouldn't dream of jeering at Barbra Streisand or Luciano...
Despite my aversion to watching baseball in inclement weather. I went to a game in October once. It was several years ago in Chicago, when the Bears were playing the St. Louis Post-Dispatches at Comiskey Field. I spent most of the game wrapped up in a blanket sipping hot cocoa, and I only remember one play. It came in the third inning. The Bears quarterstop threw a long pass, which they call a missile, to one of the left-fielders, who crossed the finish line into the "n"-zone for a home run to win the game. But everyone...
Even though I don't really like baseball, that day at Comiskey Field was kind of fun. And to top it off, the Cubs trounced those Houston Oilmen, 27-21. It was a last-minute hole in one that...