Word: stadiums
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gehrig had had a feud which split their husbands' friendship. And, the old story continued, it wasn't healed until 1939 when Ruth, in an open-necked shirt and blindingly white double breasted suit, threw his arms around the dimpled, still-uniformed, dying Gehrig before a packed Yankee Stadium...
...upper decks, dozens of old men claimed that they had been in the park the day the Babe housebroke it with a home run, April 18, 1923. Younger men claimed that they watched the day Mantle hit the ball that almost was the only one to clear the stadium, still rising when it smashed against the third deck tier, 565 feet from home plate...
Shuttling into the ballpark, New York Democratic State Chairman Patrick J. Cunningham strode quickly, hoping after weeks of indictments and political tightrope-walking, to be lost in the crowd. He had built the new stadium as much as anyone, profited more than most. Cunningham was general counsel to the Yankees as well as party chairman, and there were those (most cogently, Jack Newfield of the Village Voice) who said maybe he had mixed his functions, more than a little. "The stadium is going to cost the city $24 million and six judgeships," New York's city council president had said...
...situation. They began to shout and ram the gates, demanding entrance. Teenaged boys scratched their initials and some dirty words into the new paint on the closed gates. This upset a woman in a powder blue pantsuit so that she began to yell, "Stop defacing the beautiful new stadium! Stop it; do you hear!" Pat Cunningham scurried into the V.I.P. entrance to the ballpark. The woman in the pantsuit began to demand that her husband do something about the vandals, whose activity grew more impassioned. Her husband shrugged his shoulders, and as his jacket lifted with his body a revolver...
...reading the small print on each ticket before tearing the stub. Some waiting ticketholders tried to appeal to Pressman but he had gone around to interview the short, charismatic city councilman, Father Louis Gigante. Father Gigante contended that if the city had not wasted so much money rebuilding the stadium, it might have stopped several schools and hospitals from closing down...