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...federal prison closest to anchorage sits in tiny Sheridan, Ore., where the fenceless minimum-security wing already houses 491 inmates, including a few Alaska legislators who were greased by oil money. There's an outdoor track, plus lots of fresh air perfumed by local vineyards and what former Anchorage state representative Tom Anderson calls "very professional and respectful staff...
...yang of the American experience, poles of the national character. One is "back East," a little overbred and intellectual for a Texan's taste. The other is "out West," big and rough and physical. Massachusetts evokes Calvinism and Brahmins and John Kennedy. Texas is the fenceless dreamland of American individualism, where the native exuberance went to herd cows and sling guns and strike oil. It means Giant, Lyndon Johnson and everything bigger and louder than it ought...
Bedford Field was fenceless. The diamond was part of the practice fields for football and soccer, and this meant that if a person was to hit a home run, he had to really knock it so that the outfielders couldn't chase it down. A smart outfield would make this doubly difficult by backing way out into the grass, for a dangerous hitter, sometimes so far that you couldn't even hear their between-pitch chatter...
Varney led the team as a sophomore with a 377 batting average, 29 hits, 18 runs, 2 homers, and 17 RBIs. His home run total is very misleading, for Varney frequently hit 450-foot outs last year in Harvard's fenceless outfield...
...been hitting the ball well," captain John Igncio said. "We just haven't been getting it to drop in the right places, or with men on base." Another problem has been Harvard's fenceless outfield. "Pete Varney has hit five balls that would have been home runs in a park with a fence," Ignacio said...