Word: grandstanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...line of local chorus girls. Sometimes the whole show was included in the dollar-odd price of admission, right along with the exhibition barns and the competition sheds full of fancy needlework and loganberry jam. At other fairs, an additional couple of dollars per head were charged for the grandstand entertainment, but it was usually a loss leader...
...where it is practically impossible to reach pitches before they break), has a hitch in his swing, hits off his forward foot, regularly swings at the first pitch, is a notorious bad ball hitter. "I've seen Hank hit pitches right off his ear into the rightfield grandstand," says Pittsburgh's Bob Friend. Another opposition pitcher once complained: "The last two pitches I threw at Aaron's head, he hit out of the park...
Gradually, as the howling machines disappeared into the hills, a hypnotic hush came over Clermont-Ferrand. In the pits, the loudest sound was the ticking of stop watches as mechanics and managers paced nervously to and fro. Even the public-address announcer stopped his chatter. The grandstand crowd sat in silence-eyes riveted on a spot 400 ft. below, where the winding asphalt track curled like a thin, black snake between two green hills. There, any second now, the leading car would appear. The noise came first: the rising nasal whine of a V-8 engine echoing off the hills...
...Talk of the Town" department, all of it reprinted. The assortment casts neither light nor doubt on Updike's competence, and many of the entries are so minor as to defy measurement. But to someone who did not see it in The New Yorker in 1960, his grandstand account of Ted Williams' last trip to the plate in Boston's Fenway Park (Williams hit a home run) is worth the full price of admission to these pages...
...York, 37,999 fans turned out at Shea Stadium to watch the New York Mets take on the Los Angeles Dodgers and Pitcher Don Drysdale, whose lifetime record against the Mets was 13-1. By the end of the first inning, the Dodgers were ahead 2-0, and the grandstand blossomed with derogatory signs. PHOOEY! said one. Said another...