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Maturity, in fact, keynotes the outfield, where veterans hold down two of the three starting spots. Last year's leading hitter Dave Singleton (364), and captain and third-year starter Tommy Joyce are fixtures, while Steve Potysman and Freddie Cordova are a couple of talented sophomores looking for a shot...
...first thing one notices is that the tarnished orange girders left behind on that Harvard-Yale Saturday in November have become a brick and concrete box imposing on the soggy baseball outfield...
...outfield, the Reds have some young players, like George Foster, Cesar Geronimo and Ken Griffey, who, despite their great hit-and run-producing abilities, also play spectacular defense. The Yankees' troika of White, Rivers and Elliot Maddox aren't the greatest hitters and their defense leaves a lot to be desired as well...
...outfield grass, where the glare of the lights confronted the darkness beyond the leaning fence, out of range of catcalls muffled by the steel and concrete grandstand, 22 faceless figures played out the last act of a melodrama which had long since climaxed and was now crawling along to a predictable finale. This was a North American Soccer League (NASL) professional soccer game between the Boston Minutemen and the Miami Toros, two last-place clubs. Although 200 spectators looked on, the press had shown mercy and stayed away...
...waiting for their young players to season, Kansas City's management built a new 40,000-seat stadium. Built exclusively for baseball, Royals Stadium has some of the intimacy of the older parks, but also much that is new. The field is a Tartan Turf carpet; beyond the outfield fence is a 100-yd.-long wall of fountains and waterfalls...