"He instinctively can find the shining greatness of our American culture and does a good job of highlighting it (although he also does have those rare lapses when he writes about hockey, but that is something caused by impurities in the Eastern waters or something)." Erik Keilholtz
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The adulizing Mr. Hiss, who no doubt curses the commonplace but probably doesn't go so far as to view a khaki suit with loathing, links to a remarkable poem by Edward Arlington Robinson.
Miniver Cheevy, born too late,
Scratched his head and kept on thinking;
Miniver coughed, and called it fate,
And kept on drinking.
Tell it, bruthah.
Meantime, Random Penseur recalls Stanford White and the old Penn Station.
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The old Polo Grounds used to be directly across the river from Yankee Stadium. The Baseball Library has much more on the old ballpark at Coogan's Bluff.
Wondering: Had I lived in New York City a half-century ago, would I have been a Giants or a Dodgers fan?
Yankee Stadium continues to be listed with Fenway and Wrigley among the great old parks, but was stripped of its character in a drastic remodeling in the mid-1970s in which its distinctive wedding-cake façade was removed, save for a vestigial piece in the outfield.
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