Word: grandstands
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grandstand. The clubhouse is strictly for winners. Foxboro has the best benches around, but Suffolk Downs has a nice grass infield where you can recline among the cigar butts and discarded tickets. Wherever you sit, be sure to bring binoculars. They allow you to catch the fix on the back rail, a key to enjoying an afternoon and evening of losing...
...most major league parks, there is a certain game of "hide and go 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...
...policy. Ford emotionally embraced retired Football Coach Raymond ("Ducky") Pond, 74, who in 1935 hired Ford as his $2,400-a-year assistant, thereby enabling him to study law. Football, Ford told students, had "taught him to keep his eye on the ball and not to pay attention to grandstand critics...
...well prepared. The previous week, she and her sister would borrow the score of the upcoming performance from the local library and, to her sister's piano accompaniment, sing the entire opera together. Other afternoons, she often went to Boston's Fenway Park where she bought a grandstand seat in leftfield. Duffy remembers: "I was a Red Sox fan, and my first crush was on Ted Williams...
Soon they'll pull the tarp under the stands and store it there with the bases beneath the grandstand. The field will be left uncovered until March...