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...last night they were 4 1/2 games out of first place with 12 games left to play, two of them against the league-leading Yankees last night and tonight. Xs I hunt and peck this piece Thurmon Munson has just put one into the left field screen at Fenway Park to give the New Yorkers an early lead. It's like waving a Milky Way in front of a fat child...
...have been a svcond guesser'b dream with a lot of their moves and Tiant has never resembled the consistent craftsman who won 20 or more games three of the last four years. But amidst all this, the staff's earned run average is still a respectable 4.19, considering Fenway Park, the designated hitter and recent expansion...
...their breath. No sound or sight or smell distinguished them from the rest of the night-lifers stolling along the asphalt and concrete called Tremont and Boylston. Except they knew and felt, and maybe even almost smelt, more of that hidden earth below than anyone this side of Fenway Park...
Another recent upsetting development is the rise of the super-stadia, of which Houston's Astrodome was the forerunner. In contrast to the old, idiosyncratic parks like Wrigley Field in Chicago, and Fenway Park in Boston, these new futuristic monstrosities are sickeningly bland in conception, and utterly miserable places to watch baseball. One of the worst is Anaheim Stadium in Southern California, which I had the misfortune of visiting last summer. The game was a beauty; Frank Tanana of the Angels and Catfish Hunter of the Yankees locked in an extra-inning duel. But as is the fashion...
...seek" one plays with the management. You buy your seats somewhere in the upper deck and after a few innings, when the downstairs ushers have stopped checking tickets, you try to sneak down to the grandstand. This has long been my modus operandi at Yankee Stadium and at Fenway. But I hadn't reckoned on the rather unique security procedures in Anaheim. As my companion and I approached the escalator to make our descent, we noticed two private guards chasing away two teen-agers who had attempted to do the same. The guards had revolvers. We acknowledged them with meek...