Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phils, who have been the butt of most baseball jokes since Shibe Park became Connie Mack Stadium, probably will inspire a whole new series of jokes this coming season. The Phils did quite a bit of dealing over the winter--but it is doubtful that General Manager Paul Owens bluffed anybody. New acquisitions Dave Cash and Ron Schueler are good ball players, but they are not miracle men--so the Philly fans needn't delude themselves. Of course the big question mark is Steve Carlton. If the big lefty will stop endorsing products and start pitching like...
...team's opening series in Cincinnati so that Atlanta fans could have a chance to see the historic blows-Nos. 714 and 715-hit at home. Bartholomay conveniently did not mention that those de serving rooters had numbered barely 16,000 at the 53,000-seat Atlanta Stadium when Aaron hit his 700th home run last summer and that only 2,800 had shown up the night Aaron...
When asked to comment on the schedule Columbia's football coach William Cambell said yesterday, "How the hell would you feel if you had to open your season against Harvard at Harvard stadium...
...decided to go to the lucrative upper-deck trade and challenge the successful students. I went to the upper deck commissary and demanded to sell hotdogs. I hoped to combine the style of Veteran's Stadium fixture Charlie "Hotdog" Frank and the hustle of the nouveau-riche dog-men. Nevertheless, lacking the seniority to sell the high-profit-margin dogs, I settled back to the 35-cent cokes and prayed for an instant heat wave...
...rose to soda-selling respectability by the third homestand. I began to watch the scoreboard to learn when to quit so as to avoid the task of downing 15 leftover sodas. By the All-Star break, I had earned the reputation as number-one coke-man in Veteran's Stadium...