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...furrier in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, Zander loved the Parachute Jump, the Silver Streak and, of course, the Cyclone. After school he and his brother would stand at the exit to Steeplechase Park for hours and charm people out of unused ride tickets, hoarding them in a rented locker. "We had, like, 3,000 free rides," Zander says. By summertime, they could spend all day in the park without ever buying a ticket...
...Triple-A baseball clubhouse, my co-workers warned me, is one of the most tense places in all of sports. That locker room is full of guys resentful about being sent down from the majors, guys jaded about being stuck one rung from the top, and guys cocky about making the jump from Single- or Double-A. Our ballpark in particular illustrated the stark difference between major league and minor league—it was 50 years old and desperately in need of remodeling, so old that the visiting team had to dress in a trailer out behind the left...
...first time I walked into the locker room to get a pre-game notebook item, the reaction was comical. Jaws dropped. Hands scrambled for towels. One player strolled out of the shower, saw me, and hopped back in with a yelp that would probably be unprintable if translated here...
...Wait, you got to go in the locker room?” my friends gasped when I told them how I spent my summer. And then the conspiratorial smile: “Did you see?...
...reporters, “The only time I want to talk to a woman when I’m naked is if I’m on top of her or she’s on top of me.” Even if you make it past the locker room door, there’s a prevalent stereotype that women are only there as Peeping Tinas...