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Word: stadiums (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...another time, in another place, the jittery man in the grey flannel, red-trimmed suit might have been carted off to the booby hatch. He jerked, jiggled, tugged at his cap. He scratched and spat. In front of 61,207 at Yankee Stadium, and 40 million more on TV, he shuddered through two hours of spasms. But no one who watched the Yankees and the Braves in the last game of the World Series last week worried about the sanity of Selva Lewis Burdette Jr., 30. Throwing a sneaky assortment of curves, sinkers and screwballs, he made last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: October's Hero | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...best seat in the house was not in Yankee Stadium or in Milwaukee's County Stadium, but in front of any TV set in the land. NBC whisked the home spectator all over the field almost as intimately as the ball itself, perched him right behind the umpire at home plate, let him look over the pitcher's shoulder, or into the dust cloud at third. It was a job that took teamwork as smooth as any on the ballfield. Alertly swung and aimed cameras sent a confusing pell-mell of images from all angles into a control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Seat in the House | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

...decision to cover Yankee Stadium with four color cameras made a tough job even tougher. Using six black-and-white cameras in Milwaukee, the same crew achieved more fluent coverage from a greater variety of angles. Though the vast majority of viewers saw even the colorcasts in the black-and-white version, color demanded cameras three times as bulky (and balky), and the engineers had to "paint" constantly with their control knobs to cope with changes in lighting and color temperature. Their pains reproduced some vivid ballpark atmosphere. The grass sometimes turned Kentucky blue and the shaded areas filled with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Seat in the House | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Battle Stations. At Yankee Stadium a mile and a half of cable linked the cameras with NBC's color mobile unit in the street outside. Within the curbstone control room, nine shirtsleeved men were wedged into a maze of apparatus like submariners at battle stations, lit by little more than the flicker of eight TV monitoring screens. Director Harry Coyle, 35, an ex-bomber pilot who, like most of the others in the mobile unit, is a veteran of TV's infancy, chain-smoked from his perch on a high stool, his eyes darting back and forth. Crammed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Seat in the House | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

Producer Perry Smith, standing behind Coyle, wore two headsets-one connecting him to the Radio City studio where most of the Gillette commercials were fed into home screens, the other into the stadium to a man alongside Announcer Mel Allen, whose voice blatted through the control room above the hum of air conditioners. Smith kept a score card, called out what action possibilities lay in the next play. With two men out in the second inning, Joe Adcock was on second, and Milwaukee Catcher Crandall came up to bat. Smith sang out: "Next man up is the pitcher. They might...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Best Seat in the House | 10/14/1957 | See Source »

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