Word: homestands
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Armed with these new tricks, I rose to soda-selling respectability by the third homestand. I began to watch the scoreboard to learn when to quit so as to avoid the task of downing 15 leftover sodas. By the All-Star break, I had earned the reputation as number-one coke-man in Veteran's Stadium...
...ball park glory came, finally, during the last homestand I could attend, a 16-game August-September series. The Phillies, in an unexpected late-season awakening, were near the top of their division. Philadelphia fans dropped all pre-season Eagles discussions and stampeded to the park. Under these jam-packed conditions, with 90 degree heat, my coke business thrived. I broke two records on consecutive nights, first with a sale of 1200 cokes, then with one sale of 240 cokes to a Lions Club leader who shared his order with 500 parched Cub Scouts...
...have blown my average by continually underestimating Yale, so today I'll reverse the trend and pick the Eli over Penn. In the first two games of their present homestand the Bulldogs set a League record for points scored. That was against Cornell and Dartmouth, which have two of the best defenses in the Ivies. Penn has the worst. The temptation, therefore, is to predict an 83-1 margin; but with Princeton and Harvard on the horizon Coach Carm Cozza will probably rest Don Barrows and Brian Dowling most of the game and settle for a 38-7 score...