Word: decks
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bill Lee, the Boston starter, had staggered off the field a victim of the brawl, looking dazed and crippled even from the oxygen-mask territory of the upper deck. About a third of the Stadium crowd, far more than had earlier expressed Beantown loyalty, cheered Rick Burleson's ensuing two-run homer that began what ended as an 8-2 Bosox rout...
...steeply-tiered upper deck, which rises at least to the level of a Triple-A pop-up, puts one far above the action, an appropriate distance in a shrine, perhaps, but one that allows even Yankee partisans to concentrate exclusively on the fights in the stands and not on their team batting below. But one can't help feeling that they would have watched Ruth or Dimaggio or Mantle take their swings in the circumstances...
Another problem is Ford's campaign chairman, Rogers Morton, who remarked on TV as the grim results rolled in from Nebraska: "I'm not going to rearrange the furniture on the deck of the Titanic." The genial Morton has not had conspicuous success in organizing Ford's campaign; in general, he remains the glad-handing front man while decisions are made by Political Director Stuart Spencer...
...third varsity race, the Crimson jumped out to a deck length's lead, and kept it for half a mile. There, Yale began to move and established a length lead, a margin which they were able to hold onto until the finish...
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