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...York Times bestselling author and publicist for “Nightlight” Sloane B. Crosley is excited for the book’s release. She calls the material “its own animal” and expects fans to love it. Although these books may not rank high in the world of literary genius, “When you’re reading something like ‘Twilight’, you sort of recognize how you’re being pleasantly manipulated, and you agree to go along with it,” Crosley says...
...hotel where he will be joined by Mr. Bush on Wednesday, and he seemed overwhelmed by his reception from a crowd organized by the Bush campaign." One about Bush - "For his part, Mr. Bush continued his slow march toward Philadelphia, campaigning at the replica of the historic Crosley Field in the suburbs of Cincinnati." And one for the other guys: "The Democrats, meanwhile, continued their incessant assault on Mr. Cheney's record today...
Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds are now housing projects. The Deliverance Evangelistic Church sits on the site of what was once Philadelphia's Connie Mack Stadium. The Herbert Hoover Boys Club is where Sportsman's Park used to be in St. Louis, Missouri. Crosley Field was swallowed up by I-75 in Cincinnati, Ohio. The spot on which Bill Mazeroski stood in 1960 when he hit his dramatic World Series home run in Forbes Field is actually in a ladies' room on the campus of the University of Pittsburgh. They paved paradise, the old Comiskey Park in Chicago...
Until 1935 baseball remained an afternoon pastime; then MacPhail flooded Cincinnati's Crosley Field with banks of lights and gave a new dimension to the game. With his indomitable optimism he bailed clubs out of hock and transformed cellar teams into pennant winners: the Cincinnati Reds, the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Yankees. Off the diamond, MacPhail put his improbable imagination to work in the practice of law, managing a department store, as a banker, a football referee, a church organist and a breeder of thoroughbred horses. As an artillery captain following the Armistice of World War I, he persuaded...
...Redlegs had a good team that year, and in the first two games Walters and Derringer handled us pretty good. The Series moved to Cincinnati and we won a game back, but the Reds got lucky in the next one, and we were down three-to-one. Crosley Field was packed for the fifth game, and there were so many rubes there that you could hardly hear yourself think...