Word: turf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...olde lyric courtyard," as sportswriter Peter Gammons calls it, is the most beautiful patch of baseball turf in America. Small, old, eccentric, and a deep shade of natural green, it has escaped--with a few other holdouts like Chicago's Wrigley Field--the lunar module theory of the modern stadium: the physical analog to the wide franchises and slick operations of the new corporate baseball. This is a neighborhood park--no gargantuan concrete egg laid in the center of a vast parkingscape, slabs for seats, plastic astrograss, and conveniently adjacent to the suburban expressway. No, Fenway is rickety and ripe...
...hustle to first they razz him. When he applies his talent for appallingly stupid base-running ran all-star from the neck down. white Sox manager Eddie Stanky once said) or fields half-heatedly at first base, his new stable in the field (left field, his time-honored turf in the past, is traversed by friskeir souls now) the hoots and curses come showering down. But the fickle fans relish in extremity: when Yaz plays well, they love him as no else. And this season Yaz is playing well, very well. Perhaps this is because for once his revered position...
Leary said he would like to see a metropolitan busing plan that would affect the suburbs as well as Boston itself. Boston is an almost completely working class city, he said, and its whites and blacks fight "for the same jobs, the same turf...
...mainly the Piru plots, attacks and defends itself against its hated enemies, the local chapter of the Crips, which is perhaps the most vicious and largest street gang in the area. (The Crips got its name when its leader was shot in the leg and thereafter strutted around his turf with a cane...
...played only hard enough to win on yesterday's bright and lazy late April afternoon. The laxmen cased into a 5-1 first quarter lead, and held out manned MIT at arm's length the rest of the way in posting a 13-7 victory on the Engineers' home turf. The victory brings Harvard's season mark...