Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city had risen to the occasion. The Knot-Hole Gang clustered about the 200-foot high struts of the Old Grand-Dad billboard that peers down into Fenway Park. On a nearby apartment building five button-down pioneers looked out from the highest outcropping of stone, twenty-three stories above the ground. The Red Sox had inspired Bostonians to assault modern architecture and advertising--which was more than Louise Day Hicks would ever...
Inside the park Senator Brooke, another pioneer of sorts, was making his way to the seat where Ted Kennedy had sat the day before. Kennedy and Humphrey were gone, and one admired Brooke for eschewing tokenism. Yesterday, like the proverbial black boy who doesn't want to be pushy, he had not even notified the management of his presence. He had sat unnoticed in the recesses in right field with his family. Now it seemed fitting that he should be rewarded for his humility with a front row seat...
...surfaced through the portal and realized that Fenway Park was just right for the occasion. The fans were wrapped tightly around the playing field, the left field wall was still inscrutable, and great things could be done here. The park, like the team, was anomalous, small and somewhat fierce...
...lurking in the park, and its character was less complex. NBC was evil. One knew this when one saw a member of their team, insolent in his blue blazer, tanned by the Carribean--or was it Innsbruck--sun, corrupt in his basic indifference to our ragged emotion and hope. He wore a blue plastic badge as a catchet of his sterility. The opportunists from mass media delayed the game so that they could beam coast to coast a clicheridden conversation with the rival managers...
...left Fenway Park quickly, satisfaction tempered by circumstances. The thought of another team in a simultaneous struggle halfway across the country and the lingering image of Killebrew's ninth inning home...