Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...City (read by Edward Herrmann), makes an engrossing 4 1/2-hour tape. What is left out, however, is a good deal of the historical atmosphere, as well as many details of the laborious murder investigation. As a result, catching this serial killer seems as easy as a jog around Central Park...
...girls, and off the set has an affair with a gangster named Jacob King, who is murdered in his Las Vegas casino. Then she disappears and doesn't surface until 40 years later, when she is discovered, a few dollars from dead broke, living in a run-down trailer park in Hamtramck, Michigan...
...Nothing wrong with that; baseball is a feast best served alfresco. And the minor leagues dish it up in refreshingly affordable portions. The last time a grandstand seat in the major leagues cost $3.75, Willie Mays was still patrolling center field at the Polo Grounds. At Pittsfield's Wahconah Park, which is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, a $5 bill buys not only a hot dog but also a seat less than 40 ft. from home plate...
...between pitcher and batter. This is the only instance in organized baseball when an umpire can be accused, without rebuttal, of being blind. But more to the point, the batter too is blinded. At that juncture the umpire decrees a sun delay, and sunny songs issue forth from the park's loudspeakers. The game resumes as soon as the offending celestial body disappears behind a linden tree...
This week Gladstone is having far more fun than O'Malley. Gladstone has a team in the thick of a hot pennant race. O'Malley has an empty park. "Minor league baseball is not a microcosm of the big leagues," says Gladstone. For that, fans should be eternally grateful...