Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...York Yankees not only closed the season last week losing their final game to the Detroit Tigers by a score of 8-5, they closed their ballpark along with it. The loss of the game is theirs, but Yankee Stadium belongs to the American past. The park is not slated to fall, but will undergo a two-year refurbishing that will install new seats, remove the iron pillars that have blocked the spectators' view since the stadium opened in 1923, and completely redesign the playing field. The City of New York has undertaken the job for the Yankees...
...complicity in his death, Teruggi's roommate, David Hathaway, 24, a sociology student, claims that carabineros broke into their Santiago apartment on Sept. 20. The police, who probably suspected the students of being foreign "extremists," ransacked the apartment and hauled them off to Santiago's National Stadium, where 5,000 political prisoners are still being held. The last time Hathaway saw his friend alive was when Teruggi was being led from their cell at the stadium by guards. A coroner's report said that Teruggi died of a bullet wound...
...football's recent emphasis on conservative tactics has reduced both point scores and thrills. Legislation lifting local TV blackouts also makes the Sunday trek to the stadium less compelling. No such paltry consideration-not even the October climax of big-league baseball-distracts a very special species of spectator. He is the tailgater, a participant in an event that is part block party, part fraternity beer bust, part Shriners' parade and all Middle-American ritual...
They start arriving on Saturday in trailers, campers, trucks and even old converted school buses. By midmorning Sunday, the 160 acres of parking lot around Bloomington's Metropolitan Stadium is as populous as a small city. Thousands of separate parties are soon under way-sprawling, informal events to which admission costs only a smile...
...games are over. Today, having primed on non-league foes UMass and B.U., Harvard begins the real season--the Ivy League season--with Columbia at the Stadium. And the toothless Lions that have migrated up from the Big Apple, should do little to alter the Crimson's winning ways...