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...wasn't nearly as much fun as playing two under the sun in Wrigley Field. In the first day of the Harvard Invitational Tournament, the Crimson defeated Vermont in four grueling games (15-11, 15-13, 10-15, 15-8) and faced off against Princeton immediately afterwards...

Author: By Eric F. Brown, | Title: W. Spikers Play Two, Win One | 11/6/1993 | See Source »

...were there, and it was wonderful." She returned to Washington after 16 days, just as her husband returned from the Yeltsin summit. The next day she was scheduled to throw out the first ball of the Chicago Cubs opener with her father, who had taken her to games at Wrigley Field as a girl and stuffed her with hot dogs and statistics. She canceled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: At The Center Of POWER | 5/10/1993 | See Source »

...they celebrating at ivy-clad Wrigley Field in Chicago? Think again, for this is 1992, when the courts play a bigger role in baseball than they do in tennis. The Cubs are suing Vincent, contending that he overstepped his powers to act in "the best interests of baseball" by ordering the team to switch divisions against its wishes. The real motivation of the Chicago Tribune Co., which owns the Cubs, is (surprise!) money: WGN, the Tribune-owned superstation that shows the Cubs games, is worried that more night games on the West Coast will mean lower TV ratings. True...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Big League Shuffle | 7/20/1992 | See Source »

...facade of the department store GUM would cost a U.S. firm (might it interest Wrigley's?) $400,000. The Moscow historical museum is available (possibly the spot for an IBM ad on random-access memory?) for $250,000. Lenin's marble mausoleum is respectfully excluded from the deal, but two slogan-bearing blimps (for a cold-storage company?) floating above it will go for $60,000 each. A few firms nibbled last week, but none bit. The lead time may turn out to be too short for signing contracts and getting big American ads up by May Day. Even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Let's Make a Deal | 5/4/1992 | See Source »

Fenway Park was supposed to be (yes, I'll take the bait) a field of dreams. I don't care where you come from; if you're a baseball fan you've seen more pictures of that Green Monster than of any other ball park feature, save Wrigley's ivied walls...

Author: By Nancy E. Greene, | Title: Oriole Magic At Home | 4/22/1992 | See Source »

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