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...fair-weather fans will contribute another $8,000 to that when the Braves get into the World Series and they get into the ballpark. There is some opinion that they shouldn't be allowed. "If I owned the Milwaukee ball club," says San Francisco Giants Owner Horace Stoneham, "I wouldn't sell one World Series ticket in Milwaukee...
...column lay ticking like a time bomb. Then last week, the Giants moved into New York for a two-game series with the Mets-and Boom!-the story exploded on the sports pages of every New York paper. Rumors seethed through the National League that Giants Owner Horace Stoneham was about to fire Dark for being a racist. Before the first Mets game, 35 newsmen crowded into the visitors' dressing room in Shea Stadium to hear Dark explain himself. "I was definitely misquoted on some things," he said, "and other statements were deformed. If you are going to make...
Giant Owner Horace Stoneham seemed to recognize the reasons for Dark's discontent, at week's end broke his silence to give his manager a vote of confidence. The press reports, said Stoneham, were "exaggerated and distorted"; he denied all thought that a "managerial change is contemplated." Nevertheless, Dark has a Giant-sized problem-how to keep some of his best players from thinking that he regards them as inferiors. "It is hard to put out," said Willie McCovey, "if you think he feels that way about...
...Born in Stoneham, Lewis lived in Lexington throughout his years at Harvard. When he first moved there, he told a friend that he felt "he had finally discovered America." He had his own dark room in Lexington, and was well-known for his work in photography during his few spare moments...
...four-mile pull down Connecticut's Thames River, while California beat Navy by a length in the Intercollegiate Rowing Association regatta at Syracuse. ¶ After his talent-loaded San Francisco Giants had lost three straight to the league-leading Pittsburgh Pirates and dropped four games behind, Owner Horace Stoneham fired long-suffering Bill Rigney as manager, brought in Tom Sheehan, 66, chief scout and onetime minor-league manager, with the cold promise that the job was his as long as the Giants...