Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shaky excuse that they did not want the 20,000-seat amphitheater used as "a springboard for ideologies foreign to the majority." This was too much even for the arch-conservative Los Angeles Times. While Wallace backers, delighted at the publicity, signed up the 18,000-seat Gilmore Stadium, the Times editorialized: "We should not gag a bray...
...week, and both had a rough time of it as these pictures show. At Chicago's Wrigley Field (left), Cincinnati's Ray Lammano ran into the Cubs' Don Johnson and practically carried him on his back, thereby keeping Johnson from completing a double play. At Yankee Stadium (right), Hal Wagner of the Boston Red Sox made it. Hit on the head with a baseball, he was knocked out temporarily, and but for Yankee Shortstop Phil Rizzuto's frantic leap might have been spiked...
...League track observers will have their eyes trained on the Stadium cinders this afternoon when the Varsity collides with Tufts, Boston College and Holy Cross for the mythical Greater Boston track and field championships...
Experimentation with the running attack, which exploded with the force of a small, wet firecracker against Brown and Rhode Island State last week, has dominated recent practice sessions. Today, while everybody rests up, groundskeepers will got a chance to freshen up the Stadium cinders for the spiked-shoe invasion...
...Good field, no run," was Coach Mikkola's ready-made comment Saturday after a power-pregnant Rhode Island State team had run the Varsity into the Stadium cinders 66 to 53 1/2. Brown was third with 45 1/2 points...