Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little trouble blazing his way to the finals with his spinning serve. Across the net was Peru's Alex Olmedo, who agreeably enough had won the Davis Cup for the U.S. in 1958, ineptly enough helped kick it away this year. The routed Americans were up in the stadium...
...airliners thundered overhead on the way out of La Guardia Airport; the loudspeakers squealed and squawked. But at Randall's Island, the East River playground used mostly for track meets and soccer matches, the disturbances did not seem to matter. In three days, 60,000 fans packed the stadium for the fourth annual Randall's Island Jazz Festival, and made it the world's biggest jam session, displacing even the famed Newport Festival. The jazz buffs had come (at up to $4.50 a ticket) to hear just about every top combo, including an exciting West Coast-styled...
Yankee Error. By the time he was 16, Rocky was a star for the semipro Mohawks playing out of Crotona Park, and major-league scouts were nosing about. Rocky quit high school ("baseball was the only thing I really cared about") and waited to be courted. Yankee Stadium was just a couple of miles away, and Colavito idolized Joe DiMaggio. But the Yankee scouts fretted so long about his slow running (he has inverted arches) that Cleveland got him for a cut-rate $3,000 bonus...
This year Rocky tied a major-league record by hitting four consecutive home runs in a single game, and, what was more impressive, did it in the toughest stadium in the league-Baltimore's massive Memorial Stadium. Even so. Rocky is far from being a polished ballplayer. His powerful throwing arm-he has one measured throw of 436 ft.-can be wildly inaccurate. At the plate Rocky will murder a baseball between his belt and knees, but still has trouble solving fast balls tight and high and sliders that break away, still tries to kill the ball instead...
...Warming up for a season that still seems as remote as fur coats and chilly afternoons at the stadium, the Chicago Cardinals square off with the Pittsburgh Steelers at Austin, Texas...