Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...four in the afternoon last Saturday at an embattled Harvard Stadium, the only people rejoicing were wearing muddy white Cornell uniforms...
False Noses. But it was the failure of the uniformed police to discipline either their off-duty brethren or the mobs at Yankee Stadium that exhausted the city's patience. In an angry statement. Commissioner Codd told his 26,000-man force that any policeman unwilling to accept the responsibility of his job should "retire or get out." Codd promised to bring departmental charges against the offenders and the precinct captains who had allowed the disorders to occur...
...driven cheerfully into the Catskill Mountains, the gefilte fish capital of the cosmos, to observe two black men readying themselves for a fight at Yankee Stadium. The Ali I remembered was brave, young and handsome, and as remote from death as spring. But now this man had turned contemplative and grave. He was telling me something with great subtlety. Muhammad Ali was dying as a fighter...
Fight night broke chilly, and for all of Ali's noise, only 30,000 people appeared in the cavernous stadium. There was more violence outside the ring than in. Ali still moves with a lithe beauty, but he no longer punches in flurries. He had predicted, "Norton must fall in five." After five rounds, Norton stood strong. Across the whole fight, neither staggered the other. Ali reddened Norton's face. Norton bloodied Ali's nose. Eight-year-olds would do more...
...refurbished Yankee Stadium, a $100 million worth of it, the Bronx Boy replaced the Mets as New York's darlings. The Yankees hit the top of their division in May and stayed there as Boston tumbled from 1975's glory to miserable fourth place. The only true pennant race was in the American League West, where the young Kansas City Royals tottered down to the final days before edging out the owner-savaged but still savvy Oakland...