Word: sandlot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...night kept my grandfather from taking me to any more games. First the Bisons lost their fans, and after playing before 100 fans for a season, they realized it would be cheaper to play on a park diamond. So, they lost their field and played on a Niagara Falls sandlot for two years. But 200 followers sitting in two bleacher sections along the foul lines were not enough to keep the team from heading to Winnepeg for a new start...
Through the backlogs of shopping centers and alongside broken-bottle cluttered parks and sandlot ballfields, the train zipped along, then eased to a slow rumble as it moved into the sunken city trainyards under billboards of Ace Carpet Company and WLS personalities, Walenski Furniture and Jimmy's Discount House...
...university-as-surrogate is for surrogate activists. Their analysis is old, stale, and badly put. To focus on university-government relations empties the phrase "politically organize" of its original significance. University politics is sandlot politics. It is not political, in the immediate or the ultimate sense; it does not pertain to the public sphere of votes and power. Students with a taste for maximum returns would do better to organize the Harvard alumni rather than ineffectual academics...