Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...says pitchers are heartless? Not Yankee Slugger Mickey Mantle. It was the top of the eighth one day last week, and Detroit Tiger Ace Denny McLain was coasting to his 31st victory on a five-run lead. Up stepped Mantle for perhaps his last time at bat in Tiger Stadium. Mickey took a called strike, fouled off two more pitches, and then signaled with his bat for Denny to put the ball belt-high, where he likes it. Denny served it up, and Mick lined the ball into the upper deck for his 535th home run. As he rounded...
Archaeologists Tourrenc and Le Glay will now excavate the remaining five acres, hoping to find the remnants of Vienne's stadium, which is mentioned in the writing of Pliny the Younger. If they are unsuccessful, the citizens and builders of Vienne could yet be frustrated. For who knows? The stadium or some other important ruin-may well lie beneath the new school site...
...gets mad when he thinks about it: "Isn't that a hell of a way to make a decision ?on the basis of one ball game?" Denny was still fuming when he was called up from a farm club to pitch for Detroit in September 1963. In Tiger Stadium on Sept. 21, he made his major-league debut?against the Chicago White Sox. A few days before the game, Detroit Manager Chuck Oressen took Denny aside, and in a few short minutes of instruction taught him how to throw a curve. Thus armed, McLain mowed down the hated White...
With Detroit's general manager, Jim Campbell, Denny established what he described as a "mutual-irritation society," which was largely a result of the pitcher's propensity for popping off about Tiger Stadium, Detroit fans, his teammates?and just about anything that came to mind. Denny became so annoying that after Detroit lost the 1967 pennant by one game, rumor had it that he was on the trading block...
That was last year. "I've grown up a lot this season," says Denny. For one thing, he has learned to put a muzzle on his mouth or at least to temper his cracks. He still insists that "Tiger Stadium is the worst in the league," but now, instead of simply railing that "Detroit fans are the worst I've ever seen," he is careful to limit his complaint to "some" Detroit fans. Even so, he has been belligerent enough to inspire one of those fans to wire a smoke bomb to the engine of Sharyn's car. The bomb...