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...came home late one night to watch the end of the first home game on TV with my father. My dad had been robbed of his destiny as a Dodger fan just as I had, having immigrated from Aruba a decade after the move. At one point during the bottom of the ninth inning, he turned to me and asked, “Couldn’t they have gotten us at least a Triple-A team?” I smiled; this was a typical New Yorker’s reaction. The absence of Dodgerdom hadn?...
...having Ebbets Field around had undoubtedly changed things for us. I have spent hours lately thinking about how different life would have been as a Dodger fan instead of a Mets fan (probably a lot better this summer). I wonder what it would have been like to walk a few blocks to the stadium, and how a tradition as pure as that of baseball in Brooklyn would have survived the various corrupting influences of modern professional sport. I wonder if the days of walking down Flatbush Avenue and hearing Dodger broadcasts blaring from a million windows would have lasted through...
...Democratic Administration led by a draft-dodger was never going to persuade the generals to let go of their pet projects or the legislators to trim the military pork for the folks back in the district. The Bush Administration needed a Defense Secretary with nerves of steel and impeccable hawkish credentials to break the bad news to the military, and stare down the backlash on Capitol Hill. And Rumsfeld's combination of true-blue conservative ideological stripes and CEO managerial skills made him the dream candidate. Cheney certainly had no doubts about that - Rumsfeld had been his mentor when...
...proud Tokyo Yomiuri Giants, who were then in the process of winning nine consecutive Japan Championships. The team was powered by Sadaharu Oh, the man who would go on to break Hank Aaron's lifetime home-run record, and its charismatic, clutch-hitting third baseman Shigeo Nagashima. Los Angeles Dodger owner Walter O'Malley was so impressed with Nagashima that he tried to buy his contract, but the Giants' aging founder Matsutaro Shoriki turned the offer down flat. The quality of Japanese baseball, once considered laughably bad, had advanced so much in the postwar years - in a striking parallel...
...then the Three Tenors, as they are everywhere known, have become classical music's hottest act. The concert album of the Rome event sold more than 2 million copies in the U.S. alone, an opera milestone. By the time the Three Tenors held their second concert, at Los Angeles' Dodger Stadium in 1994 (to a crowd of 60,000), the television audience exceeded 1 billion. A world tour followed, and last year the singing showmen performed at venues from Brazil's Morumbi Stadium to the Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas. They sell records and they sell out arenas...