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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unfortunately for Pajarito. neither the referee nor Bassey was listening. After a between-rounds breather in Los Angeles' Wrigley Field last week. Bassey came back to throw so many punches so fast that his muscular Mexican opponent might as well have been tilting with a windmill. A savage uppercut separated Moreno from his mouthpiece with such violence that third-row fans caught the spray. Even when he was completely off balance, Bassey almost removed Moreno from his haircut with a pair of left hooks and a right uppercut delivered in split-second succession. At the end of the third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Razzberry for Ricardo | 4/14/1958 | See Source »

...ANGELES, Jan. 13--Walter O'Malley's melodramatic search for a home for his waifs from Brooklyn produced another cliff-hanging episode today. The Dodgers almost made it to Wrigley Field, only to halt on the threshhold...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dodgers May Use Wrigley Field Until Permanent Park Completed; Texas A&M Considers Erdelatz | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

After announcing he felt "constrained to select Wrigley Field as the site for the, 1958 major league games" of the Dodgers, O'Malley told reporters clamoring for more information that he is still in contact with Los Angeles officials on the possibility of using the 100,000-seat Coliseum...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Dodgers May Use Wrigley Field Until Permanent Park Completed; Texas A&M Considers Erdelatz | 1/14/1958 | See Source »

...half so successful as Hypnotist Edelman. Wary citizens of Los Angeles were not the easy marks he thought them, and they insisted on a time-consuming referendum before they would sell him the land in Chavez Ravine that he wants for a ballpark. Wrigley Field, the only L.A. playground O'Malley now owns, is too small for big-league crowds, and Walter has been buttering up the city fathers of Pasadena, trying to rent their Rose Bowl. If his gift of gab fails him, he will have to fall back on Los Angeles' Memorial Coliseum. Either stadium could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Talking Trouble | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

...console's detachable speaker into a special compartment in the smaller circuit, plugging into any electrical outlet. Price: $229.95 to $379.95. Neat Meat. A new method of packaging frozen meat so that it can be kept for a year or refrozen after defrosting is being introduced by Wrigley supermarkets of Detroit.' After being trimmed, meat cuts are blast-frozen to -20°, encased in two thin, crystal-like, nontoxic sheets of plastic, which seal the meat from the air and protect the color and flavor...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Dec. 23, 1957 | 12/23/1957 | See Source »

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