Word: bleachers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Besides baseball, there were fireworks, blaring bands, clowns, bike riders, tightrope walkers balancing above the heads of bleacher fans, a ballpark nursery where mothers could leave the kids while the game was on. As a gag, he gave away live ducks, chickens and pigs. When it looked as though one of his pitchers, Don Black, might have to give up baseball after an injury, Veeck shocked some minority stockholders by giving him a chunk of the receipts from one of Cleveland's games-a handsome...
...Take. His appearance at the stadium was the Progressive Party's biggest rally. Receipts from tickets (50? for bleacher seats to $3.60 for grandstand) totaled $70,000. An hour of whipped-up fund raising produced another $60,000, which ushers carted out of the stadium in baskets. Since expenses cost $40,000 for the evening, the net was $90,000. Before the Stadium rally the Progressive Party's national committee had raised $451,000, spent $670,000. Campaign Manager C. B. Baldwin announced that the party intends to raise and spend $2,500,000 on the campaign...
...governor's office in Harrisburg, singly and in angry droves. To all, Big Jim had the same answer: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." After the tax bills had passed, he remarked to a friend: "Those bastards are so accustomed to getting their own way they make blueprints for their track and start scheduling trains over it right away. When the trains don't go through they're startled...
...Oregon last week, Lawyer Elmer Ryan, of South St. Paul, entertained the Stassen party with a recitation. Chubby Mr. Ryan, Stassen's former law partner and political strategist, romped up & down the aisle of the plane reciting Casey at the Bat. Elmer was the pitcher, the umpire, a bleacher fan, the great Casey himself. Candidate Stassen, exhausted by the Oregon campaign, sat back and roared. But when Lawyer Ryan finally intoned: "Oh, somewhere in this favored land the sun is shining bright . . . But there is no joy in Mudville-mighty Casey has 'Struck Out,' " Candidate Stassen subsided...
...says. But Big Jim, after hearing the Grundy man out, took his feet off his desk, stood up and roared: "If you think I'm going to give you a free seat in the grandstand at the same time [that] I'm raising the price of the bleacher seats, you're crazy." The tax bills passed...