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...Morgan led off the Cincinnati sixth and drew a walk. Bench followed with a hit-and-run single to center, and Morgan dashed to third. Tony Perez came up again and hit a Reggie Cleveland fastball off the facing of the upper deck in leftfield. Cincinnati then had a safe 5-1 lead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Gullet, Perez Lead Reds Past Sox, 6-2 | 10/17/1975 | See Source »

...know better. The Orioles lost the pennant on a cool night in July after a game with Cleveland Indians. It happened in the first row of the upper deck, and it was all because of a girl named Barbara...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Weiss Up | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

...green of calves and grass, and the wine, orange, white of the players' uniforms. The colors collected perfectly into 50 baseball players for the Baltimore Orioles and Cleveland Indians clubs, the field in Memorial Stadium in Baltimore, and the two tanned legs of a girl in the upper deck. It was July 28, it was the beginning of a pennant race...

Author: By Philip Weiss, | Title: Weiss Up | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

...Coliseum was an unspectacular, partially sunken concrete pile. Our $3 tickets put us in the sparsely populated third deck, high above the action. At those prices few kangaroos go to A's games. Nor do many Bay Area residents either, since the three-time defending World Champion A's annually struggle to gain one million fans...

Author: By Alan M. Kaufmann jr. and Edward L. Trimble, S | Title: We Rode Around on Greyhound Buses, and Saw Some Ball Games | 9/30/1975 | See Source »

...Rice doesn't exist except as a baseball player, save for his close friends and family. In the ballpark, though, loping out to the outfield, matching steps with Freddie Lynn like the first two mustangs out of the canyon to sniff the expanse, or kneeling in the on deck circle coiled like a spring, or straightening up, breathing hard at first base after cracking one to left center--in the ballpark he's a bubbling, vital being who radiates sheer, awesome promise. Now the fourth metacarpal bone in his left hand is fractured and he is dead. Any sane...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Turner's Turn | 9/23/1975 | See Source »

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