Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Damn Camden Yards, the gleaming, charming, "old-fashioned" Baltimore ball park that has turned so many cities green with envy. Damn the Jumbotrons and the food courts and the infuriatingly courteous ushers and the souvenir superstores with the Cooperstown Collection jackets. And damn us for letting ourselves be played for suckers by people who see us not as fans but as a "revenue stream...
Granted, some ball parks probably aren't worth saving. Not many folks in Cleveland, Ohio, for instance, preferred spider-infested Municipal Stadium to Jacobs Field, the brand-new Camden Yards knockoff that puffed up civic pride even while the school system was going down the tubes. Not many tears will be shed for Candlestick Park in San Francisco and County Stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Kingdome in Seattle if and when those yards bite the dust...
Tiger Stadium, which began life as Bennett Park in 1896, will be the first of the three to go. Twice in the past few years loyalists have surrounded the ball park and given it a hug to demonstrate their affection, but they are down to their last, futile lawsuit, and ground will soon be broken for a Camden Yards knockoff in a better neighborhood...
...only because Boston sees another Camden Yards knockoff as a fait accompli. There are a few holdouts, most notably Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, but he's up against no less a personage than Ted Williams, who says, "I would not be sentimental about moving into a new ball park." And you won't find any Fenway supporters on the current Red Sox, either. "Blow it up," slugger Mo Vaughn said one day last year. "Blow the damned place up." The Red Sox may as well put a THIS PROPERTY CONDEMNED sign on the Green Monster...
...Affirmed to become the youngest--and last--jockey to win the Triple Crown. As Grindstone won the Kentucky Derby on Saturday, however, Cauthen was on the sidelines. One of the sport's most acclaimed prodigies, he retired from racing in 1992 and today is Associate Vice President at Turfway Park in Florence, Kentucky, where his father once worked as a blacksmith and his mother a trainer. Cauthen and his family live on a 300-acre farm where he breeds horses. In 1976 he was the top U.S. apprentice and soon the first jockey to win more than $6 million...