Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Third Game brought the Yankees home to their own stadium, and they came to life. Ford was back on the mound; this time his curves were snapping off sharply and his fast ball was really running. While Whitey's good left arm held the Dodgers helpless, Slaughter pounded them to death with his bat. Old Enos began the game with a series batting average of .556; by the end of the day it was .583. The Yanks gave the Dodgers a run in the second inning, but brash Billy Martin got one right back with a home...
...Encouraged by the superb defensive play of 240-lb. Tackle Proverb Jacobs, California's twice-beaten Golden Bears pushed favored Pitt all over Berkeley's fog-shrouded Memorial Stadium, upset the Panthers...
Thus, a paradox has arisen in this Ivy League. On the one hand, there is the Presidents Agreement, affirming the amateurish quality of the League, and on the other hand there is the picture of the filled stadium, the well-organized alumni, and the vigorous publicity offices. To some, as we said before, this is pure hypocrisy on the Ivy League's part--trying to capitalize on the idealism of the Agreement and the materialism of the games themselves...
...bone-tired players take turns sprinting 50 yds. up the field. Half a dozen times they drive themselves along, blowing like broken-down wrestlers. "Dig it, dig it, dig it!" Duffy shouts at them. Then, as if they have not had enough. the players troop over to the stadium for one final exercise. In stocking feet, they make three running trips up the concrete stairs to the top of the great oval...
...lusty, lengthy (two volumes, 1,731 pp., 840,000 words) novel, Sironia, Texas, which told in raw, unselective detail everything that happened in 20 years to some 30 major characters; of a heart attack in his auto after completing his thrice-weekly, mile-long jog around the Municipal Stadium track; in Waco, Texas...