Word: poloed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Fans couldn't nuzzle up to their favorites in the huge, austere Yankee Stadium. In the comparative bandboxes of Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds a sense of intimacy between spectators and players reigned. In Yankee Stadium, you'd have to be Allie Reynolds just to bean an umpire with a bottle from the reserved seats. Fans came to watch baseball, not be part of it with the Yankee ball clubs. The majestic park begged for spectacle...
Beyond the putting greens and polo grounds, the search for the good life has always been a pretty egalitarian affair in the South. Between good ole boys on a fishing, hunting, canoeing or camping weekend, distinctions of class or income are secondary to expertise or camaraderie. "Heaven help us," says Knoxville's Cas Walker, "if we are so obsessed with making money that we can't get together with old friends and enjoy a few simple pleasures...
...Palmas G.C. in the Canary Islands formed in 1891, which is incidentally the home course of two-time Ivy League champion and Harvard's leading golfer, Alex Vik. It was another 13 years until golf sunk roots in the mainland with the establishment of the Madrid Polo Club. As late as 1959, though, Spain could boast of only fourteen clubs. By 1970, the number has sprouted...
...prematurely senile: pomposity of writing and a failure of common honesty make for boring polemics on the most "weighty" of topics. Truth springs from generosity, and guys like Epstein and Angell, speaking of the hustling Pete Roses and Jerry Sloans of sports or the demise of the Polo Grounds, are the most generous...
...woman's physical and mental collapse at an out-of-the-way Mexican resort. Nor does Tryon stint on nostalgia. Skillfully he conjures up the well-nigh irresistible grandeur that prewar Hollywood displayed to the world when "people were driven by their liveried chauffeurs in Duesenbergs . . . when polo matches were played at Will Rogers' ranch and Gable danced with Lombard at the Trocadero...