Word: fields
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...little alarmed but more curious, she picked her way along the row of tombstones, came upon a mound of fresh earth. Peering around it, she discovered the source of the strange voice: a portable radio was keeping a pair of gravediggers posted on what was going en at Crosley Field five miles away...
What was going on at Crosley Field was of prime importance not only to gravediggers but to practically every one of Cincinnati's 450,000 citizens. Businessmen carried radios to their offices, golfers had caddies tote portables along with their clubs. For the Cincinnati Reds ("Our Boys" to baker and banker alike) were in the throes of their first pennant in 20 years and, like an expectant father, the whole town stood nervously by. At Crosley Field, in what oldtime ballplayers used to call a "crucial serious," Our Boys were playing the Cardinals-the swaggering, slugging Gas House Gang...
...Crosley Field 18,000 agonizing fans crammed into the grandstands. Twisting their scorecards, they watched big Paul Derringer face the formidable bats of Enos Slaughter (.321), Joe Medwick (.333), Johnny Mize (.351) and Don Padgett (.410)-baseball's hardest-hitting quartet. Derringer had won 24 games this year, had struck out 124 batters and walked only 35. Yet even his most devoted admirers feared the worst...
...genteel Southern education, a husband (Raymond Holden, verse-writing novelist and Book-of-the-Month Club editor), an imaginary small son (who, in This My Letter, is good for 14 sonnets), a home in the metropolis (with a farm in the offing), a poetry-prize (for her first book, Field of Honor, now in its third edition), an entree to radio studios, lecture platforms and the pages of some 25 periodicals (from the American Girl to the Atlantic Monthly)-all crowned with a face (see cut) that would take some women to Hollywood...
Even lighter, Belliveau, who weighs `152, was the outstanding runner on the field. Disregarding his interference and his coach's advice, Belliveau ripped off long and frequent dashes, but no scores...