Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...minutes' drive from downtown Oakland (pop. 361,561), averages a meager 6,400 per game. And many of the fans who do show up come from communities half a day's drive away. Annoyed by the lack of support, the A's call their empty stadium "the mausoleum...
From Wyncote, Jackson went to Arizona State University as a promising halfback on a football scholarship. When he started blasting baseballs out of Phoenix Municipal Stadium, the big-league scouts turned up in droves and Jackson signed with the Kansas City A's after his sophomore year for an $85,000 bonus...
After a long dispute with city officials over his stadium lease, Finley moved his show to Oakland in 1968, quickly bought the California Seals hockey team and, in 1972, basketball's Memphis Tams. But baseball remained his first priority. Finley promoted the designated-hitter experiment in the American League. This year he hired Sprinter Herb Washington to serve as a kind of designated runner for the A's. In an era of absentee ownership, General Manager Finley exercises more day-to-day control over his empire than does any of his major-league rivals. "In reality," he says...
...this is Curt Gowdy saying goodnight from Shea Stadium and the NBC Game of the Week. Stay tuned for the post-game wrap-up with your host Herbie Jones...
Then, at the Stadium at 4:30 p.m., members of the Crimson football squad and the rugby club will hammer at each other in a reenactment of that "first" football game. They'll use the "Boston Game" rules just as the original players did at Jarvis Field in Cambridge 100 years...