Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atmosphere within the stadium was moneyed and genteel. In front of my seat (halfway down the third-base line) was a tie-and-jacket, there was a tie-and-jacket to my left, and behind me and slightly to my right, two fur coats. Especially at the start of the game, it seemed as if an entire Boston Symphony Orchestra audience had mistakenly shown up, somewhat bewildered but nonetheless quite polite, at a baseball stadium. The crowd--or rather, the audience--was not so much enthusiastic as appreciative. They did not clap, they applauded; and if they did clap, they...
...stance is early Abner Doubleday; the batsman is Captain Fantastic himself, Rock Star Elton John. All dandied up in a sequined white Dodger uniform (designed by Cher's own dressmaker, Bob Mackie), Elton had come to play a pair of concerts at Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. In real life, of course, Elton has never swung a baseball bat in anger. "What I have played is a game called rounders," said the bespectacled singer. "It's the English equivalent of baseball and not nearly as violent. None of that sliding into bases and trying...
...pall of dejection hung over the Harvard side of the Stadium, making what was an already gloomy enough Saturday afternoon even gloomier. It was only moments into the Harvard-Dartmouth game, but Crimson fans were already fidgeting in their seats, secretly moaning, "Oh no, not again...
...They want me to try soccer style, so I'll try soccer style," Part McInally said as he sat on the wet grass outside Harvard Stadium Saturday morning, lacing a pair of football cleats. "But boy, my ass is sure sore. I've never done it before. I can't do it worth shit...
...made his way through a pack of spectators standing in the dry of the collonade, down the concrete steps and out of the stadium...