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...results of the straw vote were nothing more than decorative, like the garish gunfighters and naked bodies that gyrate on pinball machines. The scoreboard lit up in St. Louis and a winner was announced, but the machine was tilted the whole time...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: Pinball in St. Louis | 10/9/1975 | See Source »

...already-hysterical crowd was prodded on by the Screamin' Eagle Marhcing Band, and the scoreboard lit up advertising the "Shamrock Shuffle Post-Game Party at the Bay State Raceway...

Author: By Richard J. Doherty, | Title: Rags to Riches | 9/22/1975 | See Source »

...plant to produce synthetic bat manure in near by Kansas; in St. Louis it was whether to expand the parking space for the Blues hockey-team fans. Odd and unexpected signs of tolerance are appearing: at a New York Mets game, grizzled Met fans actually cheered when the Scoreboard showed the once reviled Yankees moving into first place. The new U.S. mood - some might call it a return to normality - may or may not prove too fragile to endure. But even Washington, for a change, had some good news last week: the Agriculture Department predicted a record harvest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN NOTES: Thinking Small | 7/7/1975 | See Source »

...color of a player's eyes from a $1.25 seat. At decaying College Park in Charleston, the mosquitoes outnumber the fans, the floodlights leave the centerfielder groping in the dark, and a park employee has to run out into rightfield every half-inning to update the Scoreboard. In Greenwood, Dave Fendrick, the young general manager of the Braves, has to collect tickets at the front gate, the dugouts are too small to shelter all the players, and in Spartanburg, Charlie ("Doc") Royals wears four hats as the Phillies' bus driver, clubhouse manager, laundry man and trainer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bush League | 6/23/1975 | See Source »

Victories this year were not a common occurrence. Williams, Dartmouth, Boston College and MIT were the only teams to come up on the short side of the scoreboard against Harvard...

Author: By Kim G. Davis, | Title: Inexperience Hurt Crimson Lax Squad | 6/12/1975 | See Source »

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