Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...eyes moved back & forth like those of spectators at a tennis match. Afternoons, they focused on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field; evenings, on St. Louis' Sportsman's Park. Home and office radios blared play-by-play descriptions; earnest discussions went on at every street corner and water cooler. The Dodgers and the Cards were going down to the wire in the closest of all National League pennant races...
...romantic Chapultepec Castle, above the cypress-shaded park where Aztec Emperors once strolled, the Mexican Society of Anthropology met last week for its fourth annual "round table." The Mexicans and gringos who sat down together were, in an archeological sense, wealthy men. Around them extended a diggers' dream empire, hardly touched, which 100 expeditions with 100 fat budgets could not hope to explore completely in 100 years...
Meanwhile he has a hobby to pursue. Like John McCormack, Christy Lynch is most eloquent on the subject of horses. "Sure and what I like to do is bet on them," he says. At Belmont Park last week, he examined a racing form: "They're all new to me, but," he confided,. "I can tell from the looks of him how a horse will...
...biggest worry to a series commentator is the reaction of the fans away from the ballpark. "They don't know the park and can't visualize exactly what's happening," says Corum, in his gin-croak voice. "Like last year, when the ball got away from the outfielders and was lost in the shrubs. I said: 'This is like town lot baseball; they've even lost the ball in the weeds.' And then I annoyed 'em when I told again what lousy baseball they were playing. I think I said...
...save time, V.E. and his wife (they have two sons) live only a few blocks from his office, in a small Park Avenue apartment cluttered with hunting prints, a 1,000-volume sporting library, piles of personal scrap books. He also has a 475-acre farm outside Ithaca, N.Y. He very seldom touches liquor, favors lemonade. His only vice is chain-smoking. To match his thinking, the cigarets are king-sized...