Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THIS IS THE MOMENT ALL JAPAN HAS BEEN WAITING FOR blazed the sign above Tokyo's Korakuen Stadium last week. In the third inning of a game between the Yomiuri Giants and the Yakult Swallows, First Baseman Sadaharu Oh, 37, blasted a low, inside pitch into the rightfield stands 377 ft. away. It was his 756th career home run-one more than the American major league record set in 1976 by Hank Aaron. Declared Oh, who was promptly named first holder of a National Hero Honors Order by the government: "I have finally put down an unbearable burden." Aaron...
...Cosmos were returning from the West Coast, where before an S.R.O. crowd of 35,548 in Portland, Ore., they had won the N.A.S.L. title by beating the Seattle Sounders, 2-1. The size of the crowd had been limited only by the capacity of the Portland stadium; millions watched on television in the U.S. and around the world. Reflecting the popularity of soccer outside the U.S., the game had been beamed to ten countries. Though only a few years ago, soccer attendance in the U.S. seldom exceeded a few thousand, during the just completed N.A.S.L. season, soccer fans flocked...
Triumphantly holding aloft a second-base bag just torn from the San Diego Stadium ground by his exultant teammates, Left Fielder Lou Brock of the St. Louis Cardinals last week celebrated the breaking of one of baseball's most enduring records. Collecting the 893rd stolen base of his career in a game with the San Diego Padres, he eclipsed the record established by Ty Cobb in 1928. Cobb took 3,033 games and 24 seasons (most of them with the Detroit Tigers) to set his mark; Brock needed only 2,376 games and fewer than 16 full seasons...
Four years ago, the Chilean army attacked with brutal force the hundreds of Chilean workers who fought to defend Allende's government. Hundreds of students who resisted the coup were rounded up and placed in Santiago's National Stadium, where more than 200 were shot as the other watched, helpless. Victor Jara, a young Chilean folksinger, sang to the people in the stadium as the junta's soldiers tortured and finally killed...
...overdose of fuel for their case," than Mississippi's Senator James Eastland arrived for more of the same. At week's end, some 2,000 American Zonians, mainly employees of the Panama Canal Company and members of their families, staged an anti-treaty rally in Balboa Stadium, but Strongman Omar Torrijos Herrera had robbed them of much of their thunder at a meeting of Panama's toothless legislature earlier in the day. Torrijos praised Carter and exhorted voters to turn out in the national plebiscite on the canal agreements...