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Word: gloamin (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...forward to, it stood to reason, their games stayed a little stiller in time, though grassy and unlit Wrigley Field obviously had much to do with it. "Their ivy-covered burial ground," the late composer Steve Goodman called it, where Gabby Hartnett hit his Homer in the Gloamin' and Babe Ruth may have pointed to the sky. Bill Veeck, who planted the original outfield vines in 1938, sits out there every day now bleaching his peg leg. That style of ivy is called bittersweet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Wait Until This Year | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

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