Word: parkes
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Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds are now housing projects. The Deliverance Evangelistic Church sits on the site of what was once Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium. The Herbert Hoover Boys Club is where Sportsman's Park used to be in St. Louis, Missouri. Crosley Field was swallowed up by I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The spot on which Bill Mazeroski stood in 1960 when he hit his dramatic World Series home run in Forbes Field is actually in a ladies' room on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. They paved paradise, the old Comiskey Park in Chicago...
...those ball parks have been leveled since the '60s, all in the name of progress, prosperity and Manifest Destiny. Now only four remain to connect fans to the past, to link Lou Gehrig to Cal Ripken. Of those, three have recently been given the kiss of death: Tiger Stadium, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. Going, going, gone...
...Cafes. It would be easy to blame the baseball owners for being greedy, and make no mistake, they are. But their co-conspirators and enablers are legion: politicians, corporations, economists, fans, journalists. Sportswriters who once thought the designated hitter was the end of civilization now dismiss the old ball parks as inconvenient anachronisms. Tiger Stadium? "Bad neighborhood," say my brethren. Fenway Park? "Hey, it's a sardine can." Yankee Stadium? "Bad neighborhood and no parking...
According to Detective Patrick G. Nagle of the Cambridge Police Department, Othega J. Mooney was shot at 7:10 p.m. in a park across the street from the mall...
There are dozens of potential witnesses to the shooting, as several restaurants, including Houlihan's and Rayz Riverside Cafe, have windows that face the park where Mooney was shot, The Boston Globe reported yesterday...