Word: stadiumitis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Allie Reynolds will start for the Yankers and either Preacher Roe or Don Newcombe for the Dodgers at 1 p.m. this afternoon as New York third inter-brought World Series in nine years begins in the Yankee Stadium...
Though crowds have surged in and around the Yankee Ticket Offices at the Stadium and A. G. Spalding (Fifth Avenue) in an effort to procure the elusive opening-game-of-the-series ducats, local fans can take advantage of excellent television facilities in the quest for seeing-it-all-happen. These facilities include Adams, Lowell, and Winthrop Houses and the Union, which offer television in their Common Rooms...
...concession at the Stadium this Saturday will offer Crimson followers a special, waterproof seat complete with backrest, which clamps on to the benches...
...grass of the fenced-in practice field is beginning to get threadbare, but the Stadium turf looks smooth and lush. The Building and Grounds Department has a small squad prettying up the area and wiring it for sound in preparation for the Saturday homecoming...
...Cleveland baseball club. In the mathematics of the 1949 pennant race, the Indians, World Series winners a year ago, were dead. To mourn the sad occasion, Veeck, crowned with a silk hat but still without a tie (he never wears one), drove a horse-drawn hearse into Municipal Stadium with all the Indians trailing along as pallbearers and mourners. They buried last year's pennant beneath a cardboard tombstone back of the center-field fence...