Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Yomiuri Giants. Oh has 634 lifetime home runs against Aaron's 733 and expects to pass Aaron's total one day. At their Saturday contest, each batter will select a pitcher and then use half an hour trying to rap baseballs out of Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium. For his appearance, Aaron will make $50,000, win or lose. As for Oh, he warms up for each game by gulping down a secret mixture of Korean ginseng and honey, and expects to emerge victorious. "I'm younger than he," says Oh politely, "and I'm afraid...
...York franchise has moved to Charlotte, N.C., leaving the league without a team in the nation's biggest TV market. The Houston Texans have shifted to Shreveport, La. Attendance at some games is dismal: 750 recently turned out at Philadelphia's 100,000-seat J.F.K. Stadium on a rainy night to see the Bell play, and fan support league-wide has fallen sharply below expectations. Reports of overdue paychecks are rampant; members of the Florida Blazers have gone six weeks without salary...
League owners met in Los Angeles last week, and in an effort to stabilize the W.F.L., they announced that a new team would be formed in New York in time for the 1976 season and the reopening of Yankee Stadium. They also held a special draft for Wheel players-16 members of the 37-man squad were picked up-and promised to honor all other contracts signed by now defunct teams. "We feel while we have had our problems, we have not ignored them," says League Founder and Commissioner Gary Davidson. "I feel very positively we have turned the corner...
...terms of image, Oakland never had a chance. Liza Minnelli, Cary Grant and Walter Matthau turned up for the series opener at Dodger Stadium; the Bay Area could counter only with Charlie O, the A's mascot mule. But perhaps the Dodgers misunderstood the A's. Although Oakland's internecine bloodletting is nothing new, and, in fact, usually accompanies their best play, the Dodgers seemed to think that the squab-bung would undermine the A's. "I hope they fight some more," said Dodger Manager Walter Alston...
...Austin. The faculty and students thought that he did not stand up to the regents enough, though he did win some respect with his largely unsuccessful efforts to raise faculty salaries-while the regents were spending $27 million for a new basketball arena, $11 million to enlarge the football stadium's seating capacity and $6.6 million for a swimming pool...