Word: stadium
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Houston Astrodome--"before they brought the fences in," Dwight points out gratefully. "I couldn't sleep the night before, and I couldn't stand to wait for 5 o'clock to take the team bus. About 2:30 I left the hotel and walked by myself to the stadium, about a mile and a half. Everything was moving in slow motion; I was sweating pretty good." Despite forgetting all he knew about pitching the instant the game began ("It was like I'd never been on a mound before"), Gooden struck out Dickie Thon to end the first inning...
...World Series last year to the team that is predicted by many to win it this year, the New York Mets played in a number of extra inning contests in '85, but none as memorable as their July 4th epic 19-inning thriller at Atlanta's Fulton County Stadium against the Braves which ended at 3:55 a.m. The Independence Day fireworks began at 4:30! Ten points if you can name the player who scored four runs in that contest after entering in the ninth inning...
...Hammerin' Hank's chase of Babe Ruth was one of the most celebrated in all of sports. Aaron pounded his record-tying 714th tater on opening day, 1974. Five points if you can name the pitcher off whom Aaron connected and five more if you can name the stadium in which the momentous event took place...
...association originally planned a fully scheduled Spring Weekend highlighted by a Talking Heads concert in the Stadium. But when the College nixed SPA's plans to use the Stadium, "the whole Spring Weekend was scrapped," said Paton...
...spring event will still use College athletic facilities, but Paton said the intramural fields are "less defined" than the Stadium, which he said College officials worried would be damaged by a concert. "Most any college loves their football field," he said...