Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That was too much for the crowd at North London's ugly, red brick Harringay Stadium. Someone in the two-shilling enclosure vaulted the barrier onto the track, shouted: "Come on!" Three or four hundred others joined him. The mob started five bonfires of broken hurdles and fencing, dumped the photo-finish camera into one of them, heaved bookies' stools through the windows of the track restaurant...
Kirkland appeared to have a slight edge in the initial innings, but the Bellboys put on the pressure in a big four-run uprising in the top of the fourth, and were never again headed. Curley poled a tremendous homer to the Stadium wall in that frame with two mates aboard, after cohort Pete Marble had clouted another four-master with the sacks empty...
...customers, sometimes hung around the locker-room for three hours after the game to avoid hero-worshippers. Williams had only one trouble: he seemed to get musclebound against the second-place New York Yankees. He had yet to make a hit this year in Yankee Stadium...
After throwing a quick smile to the strongly pro-Budge crowd of 9,000 in the stands, Champion Bobby Riggs marched out of the stadium with his blonde wife on his arm and lipstick on his face. His week's work had been worth $3,100 in prize money, plus a $500 bet he won on himself...
...where Mayor Roger Lapham and California's Attorney General Robert Kenny helped her celebrate. (She crowed happily: "These parties are getting more interracial every year-and for that reason I enjoy them more each year.") In Washington, 12,000 fans at a special Negro ball game in Griffith Stadium sang Let Me Call You Sweetheart to the absent guest of honor. In 38 other U.S. cities, her admirers remembered...