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...RECKONING is possible; the Red Sox front office gave neither a precise accounting of its patronage nor a description of how it decided who its friends were. At most 7000 seats went to fans without pull; the accurate figure is probably even lower. (In Cincinnati, only 12,300 of Riverfront Stadium's 53,000 seats went to fans with no connections...
...Game 3 at Cincinnati's Riverfront Stadium, it was Home Plate Umpire Larry Barnett who was lucky to get out alive. His crisis came with none out and a man on first in the bottom of the tenth inning; the score was tied 5-5. That was the moment when Reds Pinch Hitter Ed Armbrister bunted, hesitated as he started toward first, and then collided with Red Sox Catcher Carlton Fisk just as Fisk was trying to field the ball. Fisk pushed Armbrister aside, then threw the ball over second base into centerfield. Was his error caused by interference...
...disgust with the Riverfront boys goes beyond any sort of baseball rationality. For instance, I always hated those Cincinnati fans--every one of them. I mean, really, year after year since Gilette introduced that fan All Star game balloting system I have dutifully cast my 10,000 votes per season for Larry Bowa, the Phillies' incredibly sure-handed and now bat-strong shortstop...
Among the nine other national pavilions, the $3 million, 62,000-sq.-ft. Soviet building is the most popular. The building is a visual delight, from the entrance, prefaced by pools, fountains and water plants, to a riverfront restaurant, supervised by a chef who presides over the best chicken Kiev this side of Leningrad. It has huge, non-Stakhanovite art montages, three movie theaters, an exhibition of Armenian archaeological artifacts and, in keeping with Expo's theme, ingenious models of air-and water-purification systems...
...also would not estimate when Con Ed would need Harvard's land, but said most of the early work would be done at the riverfront, on the opposite side of the project...