Way back when… DeLorimier Downs, Montreal was the scene of a World War Two bond drive. Also known as Montreal Stadium, it was Jackie Robinson’s home field when baseball’s color line was broken.
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Fri May 29, 2009 1:20 PM
Au Wrigley Field, depuis 1916 on joue l’après-midi. Et on call malade pour ensuite se ramasser aux nouvelles de 6 heures avec quelques bières dans le nez (à 1:06 du vidéo).
(*) La citation qui coiffe ce billet est tirée du film Taking Care of Business avec James Belushi.
La saison a fini hier. Les Cubs : 103 années sans championnat. Mais y’a de l’espoir pour 2015…
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ARGOSY for men. June. 25¢
COLD WOMEN — AND WHY An authorative analysis by Amram Scheinfeld
WINE, WENCHES — AND GOOD SCOTS BLOOD A Book-lenght Novel by Henry John Volyton
WE MUST HOLD TURKEY — OUR MIDDLE EAST BEACHHEAD by Ray Brock
Argosy, juin 1948.
Cover painting / illustration by Charles Dye.
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Goodbye to the ’70s
A not-so-fond farewell to the decade that finished off the Age of Aquarius
The Seventies, the decade that brought you Watergate, Koreagate, $1.20 gas, 13-percent inflation and Hamilton Jordan, are gone for good. Sorry? Probably not. Just the same, your friends at CHIC wanted to memorialize the era just past — and to show you how much difference 10 years can make — by compiling some information on the way we were 10 years ago. And remember, any decade that started off Nixon as President and ended up with anybody else can’t be a total waste.STILL MORE AMERICAN GRAFFITI
Remember these boss goldens? According to Billboard, they were the top-selling records of 1970:
1) Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon & Garfunkel
2) Close to You, The Carpenters
3) American Woman, Guess Who
4) Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head, B.J. Thomas
5) War, Edwin Starr
6) Ain’t No Mountain High Enough, Diana Ross
7) I’ll Be There, The Jackson 5
8 ) Get Ready, Rare Earth
9) Let It Be, The Beatles (broke up in ’69)
10) Band of Gold, Freda PayneCRUISE
What were the hottest-selling cars a decade ago? Ward’s Automotive Reports supplies the answers. The first two are multiple listings, but they’re actually your basic Ford and Chevy. Engine and body styles are the same; the different model names are caused by trimmings and incidental goodies. Note the absence of Toyota, Datsun, Fiat, Le Car and (Bang! Fwoosh!) Ford Pinto:
1) Ford LTD, Galaxy, Custom 500 – 837,000
2) Chevy Impala, Caprice – 718,000
3) VW Beetle – 406,000
4) Chevy Chevelle – 380,000
5) Ford Torino – 348,000
6) Ford Maverick – 339,000
7) Buick Electra – 293,000
8) Plymouth Fury – 256,000
9) Plymouth Valiant – 251,000
10) Pontiac Bonneville – 248,000THE FLICKS
The 10 top movies of 1970, as reported by Variety, and their distributors’ rentals:
1) Airport – $37,650,796
2) M*A*S*H – $22,000,000
3) Patton – $21,000,000
4) Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice – $13,900,000
5) Woodstock – $13,500,000
6) Hello, Dolly! – $13,000,000
7) Cactus Flower – $11,300,000
8) Catch-22 – $9,250,000
9) On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – $9,000,000
10) The Reivers – $8,000,000
[Just by way of contrast, Variety reports that Star Wars's first-year rentals totaled $127 million!]BATTER UP!
The top-10 major league batting averages of 1970:
1) Rico Carty, Atlanta Braves .366
2) Alex Johnson, California Angels .329
3) Carl Yastrzemski, Boston Red Sox .329
4) Tony Oliva, Minnesota Twins .325
5) Joe Torre, St. Louis Cardinals .325
6) Manny Sanguillen, Pittsburgh Pirates .325
7) Billy Williams, Chicago Cubs .322
8) Wes Parker, Los Angeles Dodgers .319
9) Clarence Gaston, San Diego Padres .318
10) Tony Perez, Cincinnati Reds .317MAKING BOOK
Publisher’s Weekly lists these books as the biggest sellers of 1970:
Fiction
1) Love Story, Erich Segal
2) The French Lieutenant’s Woman, John Fowles
3) Islands in the Stream, Ernest Hemmingway
4) The Crystal Cave, Mary Stewart
5) Great Lion of God, Taylor Caldwell
Non-Fiction
1) Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask, David Reuben
2) The New English Bible, Oxford University Press and Cambridge University Press
3) The Sensuous Woman, « J »
4) Better Homes and Gardens Fondue and Tabletop Cooking, the editors of BH&G
5) Up the Organization, Robert TownsendWHAT DO THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE HAVE IN COMMON?
Janis Ian, David Kopay, David Bowie, Angela Bowie, Malcolm Boyd, Joan Baez, Elton John, Kate Millett, Charles Reich
[They all "came out" in the Seventies; each admitted to having had homosexual experiences.]HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Look what birthdays these people will be celebrating in 1980:
John Lennon will turn 40.
Frank Zappa will turn 40.
Brooke Shields will turn 15.ABSENT FRIENDS
Here’s how old 10 celebrities would be in 1980:
JFK would have been 63.
Bobby Kennedy would have been 55.
Martin Luther King would have been 51.
Che Guevara would have been 52.
Jimi Hendrix would have been 38.
Janis Joplin would have been 37.
Jim Morrison would have been 37.
Jack Kerouac would have been 58.
James Dean would have been 49.
Richard Nixon will be 67.TWENTY THINGS THAT DISAPPEARED DURING THE SEVENTIES,
PROBABLY FOR GOOD
1) Gas wars
2) Cheap Mexican dope
3) Look Magazine (twice)
4) Cigarette commercials
5) East Pakistan
6) Babe Ruth’s lifetime record
7) « Underground » FM programming
8) The Orient Express
9) VW Beetles
10) Idi Amin
11) Glitter rock
12) The Washington Senators
13) Peck and Peck
14) The $25,000 starter house
15) SDS
16) $3 movies
17) Kids who can read
18) Swine flu
19) Miniskirts
20) The SixtiesTWENTY TERMS THAT WOULD BE ABSOLUTELY
MEANINGLESS IF THE SEVENTIES HAD NEVER HAPPENED
1) Hot tubs
2) OPEC
3) ‘Ludes
4) The Force
5) Executive privileges
6) Cult expert
7) Born again
8) Laetrile
9) China syndrome
10) Nanoo-nanoo
11) LED
12) SLA
13) Pong
14) Free-agent draft
15) Gang of four
16) Cellulite
17) Pop Rocks
18) Palimony
19) Roller disco
20) StagflationTEN THINGS WE DIDN’T SEE IN THE SEVENTIES,
AND PROBABLY WON’T SEE IN THE EIGHTIES EITHER
1) The four-day work week
2) Passage of the ERA
3) The Beatles back together
4) Gay Talese’s book on sex
5) A cheap alternative to petroleum
6) The Chicago Cubs in the World Series
7) The death of rock
8) Quality prime-time TV
9) Revitalized inner cities
10) Legal dope
Tiré du magazine CHIC (A Larry Flynt Publication, International Edition), janvier 1980.
Oui, the Age of Aquarius est mort. Et merci pour ça, Jésus (Christ Superstar?).
Gardez nos jeunes loin des années 70 !!!!
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With the World Series only eight weeks away, the pennant payoff would come for the teams that played the hardest, most aggressive baseball. Still, all-out baseball could boomerang. Best example: Last year’s injury to Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella during the closing weeks of the season. A similar key injury in a tight race (in the A.L. the Yankees, Boston, Washington, and Cleveland are bunched while in the N.L. Brooklyn and N.Y. are one-two), could decide the flag. Ironically, it’s tough plays at key positions that usually win or lose a game.
The Yankees’ Yogi Berra, now on a home-run spree, told Quick: « The roughest play for a catcher is covering home plate after fielding a bunt and making the throw to first. On that play, it’s almost impossible to see what the runner is doing. »
Though pitchers traditionally have few fielding chores, they can still be bruised. Murry Dickson, Pittsburgh righthander, says the roughest play for a pitcher is « covering the bag when the first baseman is pulled away. »
Most experts concede the roughest place on any diamond is second base during a double play. Yankee shortstop Phil Rizzuto freely admits: « I collect most of my bumps and bruises making the relay throw to first base to complete a double play. It’s plenty rough on a shortstop when you’re trying to make a quick, accurate throw, and some fast, real hard slider like Cleveland’s Bobby Avila comes slamming into you. »
In a season as tight as this one, players and fans agree the pennant can go to the team that won’t quit and ignores the bumps and bruises.Brooklyn pitcher Carl Erskine and Red outfielder Lloyd Merriman sprawl after collision at first base.
Avila bounces off Berra in close play at home.
Jackie Jensen, Washington, rams Cleveland’s Jim Hegan.
Rizutto is upended by A’s Elmer Valo.
Dodger shortstop Pee Wee Reese tumbles over Giants’ Wes Westrum.
Couverture et article du magazine Quick, Vol. 7, No. 5, 4 août 1952.
Pour ceux que ça intéresse, les Yankees ont battu Brooklyn en série mondiale, évidemment.
Yogi Berra, grand gourou de l’humour involontaire et homme qui n’a pas dit tout ce qu’il a dit, fête ses 86 ans aujourd’hui.
Le voici en 2008 :
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Dans Les secrets du baseball, publié en 1980 aux Éditions de l’homme, Jacques Doucet et Claude Raymond (les « voix officielles du baseball à CKAC » et animateurs de l’émission Les amateurs de sport, nous dit-on) proposent de nous faire découvrir « les nombreuses facettes d’un sport trop souvent accusé à tort d’être lent et décousu ».

Pas besoin de vous taper le livre pour connaître les secrets en question, nous vous les résumons ici à l’aide des super belles illustrations qui accompagnent cet ouvrage.
D’abord, bien connaître les endroits où s’injecter des stéroïdes.

Les lanceurs amputés de la tête sont rarement les meilleurs.

Identifier les « deux bonshommes » qui sont les grandes gueules dans l’équipe.

Joueur victime des trous dans le toit du Stade Olympique. Il a de la neige sur sa casquette.

Quand on est en train de perdre, ne pas lancer la serviette. Elle peut servir à se donner des claques de serviette mouillée dans les douches après la partie.

En cas de défaite, trouver des excuses et blâmer tout le monde.

En 1980, le Vélodrome ne s’appelait pas encore le Biodôme et la ville de Montréal n’existait pas au nord de la rue Sherbrooke.

Le dernier chapitre est intitulé « Renseignements concernant le stade olympique et les services disponibles durant les matches des Expos ». Vous y apprendrez notamment que les Expos ont attiré « un sommet de 2 102 173 personnes au cours de la saison 1979 », qu’un billet pour un match coûte entre 1$ (confirmé par ce programme de la saison 1978) et 8,25$, que « le public peut se procurer ce qu’il désire », c’est-à-dire « hot-dogs, sous-marins, frites, pretzels, pizza, rondelles d’oignons, crème glacée, cacahuètes, popcorn, eaux gazeuses, bière et café » dans les « concessions dont la responsabilité appartient à M. Gerry Trudeau ». De plus :
« Pour vous donner une idée de l’affluence de la clientèle lors d’un match des Expos, disons qu’en 1979, un jour où les Expos attiraient près de 60 000 personnes, il s’est vendu 60 000 hot-dogs, 50 000 verres de bière (en fût ou en bouteille) et 60 000 eaux gazeuses. Au cours d’une saison normale de baseball, il se vend quelques 150 000 livres de saucisses hot-dogs au stade olympique. En considérant qu’il y a 12 saucisses à la livre et que chacune d’elles mesure six pouces, si on les mettait bout à bout, on couvrirait une distance de 170 milles ! »
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On finit avec un souvenir de l’inimitable Bill « Spaceman » Lee …
…et ses célèbres crêpes au pot.


















