Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have lost its old lightning. His legs had thickened at the thighs. Said Joe: "I know I look lousy. . . it's just the way I planned it." He knew that the time to look good was for one hour on the night of June 19, in Yankee Stadium...
Last week Allah was good to him. Sixty thousand Parisians, the biggest sports crowd since the war, squeezed into Colombes Stadium to see Ben, the Black Pearl, and his fellow Frenchmen in red, white & blue outfits play the heavily favored English team. Ben stole the ball constantly, executed short delicate passes over English heads, did more work than any three teammates combined to beat England...
...park grass which needed cutting or a building which needed paint-and scribbled manifestoes on a pad at his side. But the city boasted amazingly clean streets, dozens of parks and playgrounds, fine schools, libraries, one of the finest zoos in the U.S., a fairgrounds, an E. H. Crump Stadium, good hospitals, good health...
...were red-hot, and Bostonians caught the fever. A third of a million fans in two weeks saw the Sox win 14 straight games, a phenomenal string. Then the Sox put on their traveling shoes, proudly eyed their fat batting averages (two were above .400) and headed for Yankee Stadium...
Baseball's second largest weekday crowd in history (64,183) jammed the Yankee Stadium to see a hitting match between Joe Di Maggio and Ted Williams. Joe, who had been doing so poorly that the crowd had booed him the day before, hit a home run with the bases loaded. Williams couldn't hit a thing, but the Sox won victory No. 15 anyway...