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Cliff Ward Nation's pastime is now a real bite in the wallet "Take a loan out for the ballgame Do it when the prime rate is down Re-mortgage for peanuts and crackerjacks Give'em a twenty and get a dime back So let's root, root, root 'round our wallets If you're not rich it's a shame For it's ten, twenty, thirty bucks you're out At the old ballgame" Has anyone noticed how expensive it's become to view our national pastime in person? It's a far cry from those genteel days of yesteryear when gents with handlebar moustaches took to some unused cow pasture on a Sunday afternoon while the fans ate picnic lunches on red checkerboard blankets. Major league baseball is a big business and, unfortunately, it's a big ripoff. I guess this is not news to anyone who has read a sports page recently, what with the massive salaries paid to players who hit .240 or pitchers who have an earned run average of 48. Since owners have to pay those big salaries, I guess fans make it up in part through concessions and souvenirs and the owners get to play Harry Truman (the bucks stop here). I ventured out to rustic Comiakey Park a week or so ago to watch the White Sox do battle with the Texas Rangers. When I left the comfy environs of suburbia, it was a sunny 6B degrees and I foolishly wore only a light jacket. When I reached the south side of Chicago, it was 53 degrees, with a chilly wind coming off the lake and the gloom of evening and the temperature dropping fast. I knew I had made a foolish mistake by not dressing for the weather and I knew I was going to compound it by doing wtrppthing equally foolish--I was going to buy a Sox sweatshirt from one of the 8,000 souvenir stands located in and around Comiskey. The first souvenir stand I founded no Sox sweatshirts -- just Sox T-foteta, Sox pennants, Sox hats, Sox jackets, Sox Mowdryers, Sox toasters, Sox Mister Microphones, Sox sparkplugs, Sox lawn and hair care products and Sox socks. "No Sox sweatshirts?" I asked the vendor, a hint of panic creeping into my voice. "Sorry, son," came the reply from an older gent, who was entirely attired in Sox stuff, "you can only find one of those out there." He gestured out the nearest gate to a 36th Street souvenir stand, just past where Sportservice employees in kimonos were serving "Sox Sushi." I squinted out the door to the general area he had pointed. "Hey, son," he said as I walked away, "if you have to squint to see something that close, maybe you should stop at Sox Optical." After Andy Frain told me the proper procedure for get­ ting a pass out of the park, I wandered up to the first of a line of souvenir stands that stretched as far as the eye could see. "I'm interested in buying a medium-sized hooded sweatshirt, if the interest rates are reasonable, of course," I said to the hawker. "I'm sorry," the woman told me. "All I have are smalls." "I see," I muttered, turning to inquire elsewhere. "Wait a minute, sir," she called in the distance. "I can give you attractive premiums on Sox Health and Life in­ surance. You know, like the batter facing a wild lefthander, the fan needs protection, too." I replied: "No, thank you." I struck paydirt at the next stand. They had hooded sweatshirts. "You wouldn't happen to have the sweatshirt of some other team other than the Sox?" I (a Brewers fan) asked. "Sorry, just the Sox," the vendor said. "But you can have have it in grey or white." I took white. "That'll be twenty bucks," he said. "that's about what I figured," I said, forking it over. About six innings later I was thinking all of this over, sitting in my |0 box seat, munching my $1.25 hot dog and sipping my $1.75 beer. What about the youth of the nation, how will parents be able to take kids to the ballpark at these great costs? I brooded as a peanut vendor walked the aisle. "Hey, I'll take two bags of nuts," I called out. "How about makin' it three," a small voice fom the next row shot up. The voice belonged to some little street urchin with a Brewers hat and a hooded sweatshirt that probably cost less than $20.1 liked this kid's nerve immediately, so I bought him the peanuts. I struck up a conversation with the kid, who was there alone accept for a fellow waif of similar vintage, and he told me he lived in the neighborhood, which is not by any means one of Chicago's more affluent areas. In fact, it's downright poor. "How did you manage to get in here anyways?" I said to him. He answered out loud what I already knew. "Isnuck in," he said matter-of-factly. Well, maybe things aren't so bad after all, I thought, and when the organist cued the crowd in the bottom of the seventh, me and the kid sang this song: "If you take big bucks to the ballgame And spend it all on the chow Buying popcorn and peanuts and big cold beers You won't have a dime left when you leave here So let's sneak, sneak, sneak in through a side gate If we get caught it's a shame But it sure beats dropping a wad At the old ballgame. \m NAIKVYUM! STUDIO Complementary Facials ON SATURDAYS BY PROf ESSIONAL BEAUTY CONSULTANT , 2020 W. RTE. 120*McMemy. II. 385-7010 Area woman PAGE Jl-PI.A1NOEALER. WEDNESDAY, MAY 23, 1984 shot, husband charged By Laura Janota and Jim Nash Plaindealer newsservice No motive has been established in the weekend slaying of a 26-year-old Car- pentersville woman found shot to death in her home early Sunday morning. Sandra K. Nolan, 26, was fatally shot once in the head. She was discovered by police at about 1:45 a.m. lying in the bedroom floor of the home. A .45-caliber automatic pistol was found next to her head, according to Carpentersville police. One Spent cartridge, a DOX of ammunition and a gun cleaning kit were also recovered from the vicinity, police said. The victim's husband, 27- year-old Danny K. Nolan, same address, apparently notified authorities by telephone of the shooting and was found lying on the living room floor talking on the telephone wtfen Car­ pentersville police arrived at the scene. Nolan, a truck driver, has be mi charged with murder . He was being held in Kane County jail Sunday afternoon after a judge refused to set bail for Nolan during the afternoon bond call session. Motives in the killing remain unclear, according to the police, who reported the couple had been out drinking before returning home at about 1:30 a.m. Mrs. Nolan went into the couple's three-bedroom home while her husband remained outside talking with neighbors, Sgt. Carpentersville police Robert Emerick said. After completing a brief conversation, Nolan went inside too, Emeridc said. About 20 minutes later, Nolan called police requesting paramedic assistance for his wife, police said. Neighbors apparently did not hear the single shot, according to Emerick, who said the couple had been married about five years and had not exhibited any serious marital difficulties. AGRICULTURAL LANDMARK, continued from page 1 over other methods used at the time. This method eliminated spoilage due to rain and snow seeping into the silage and also eliminated the silage freezing problem. Hatch had learned of the use of silage for animal feed while attending the Illinois Industrial University (now known as the University of Illinois), from which he graduated with a degree in agriculture in May of 1873. Previous to Hatch's invention, silage had been stored in un- derground pits or trenches, where there was always a danger of moisture damage to the crop. Although European countries had been storing silage in vertical pits for many years, the first trench silo was not erected in the United States until 1876 three years after the Hatch silo had been erected. , While Hatch's 24 foot vertical silo was an obvious im­ provement over other methods, it was not until 13 years later that his neighbors began to follow his example when in 1886 Hatch's uncle built one and his brother followed suit in 1887. The Hatch's never applied for a patent for their invention, which helps explain why their vertical silo took so long to catch on and also explains why they were never credited with the invention until recentlv. In spite of the many dif­ ficulties, vertical silos even­ tually caught on in America, paving the way for America's dominance of the world's agricultural market. "It's because of those kinds of efforts that we, as a nation, are able to enjoy a higher standard of living," Raymond Bula, past director of the U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center said. "This is a very significant milestone in American agriculture." "I know it means so much to every American and to most of (t the civilized countries of the world," Skromme said in conclusion. "Our Peace Corps workers and overseas extension agents are still showing farmers in primitive countries how to build silos and make silage-the teachings of Lewis and Fred Hatch are still continuing to enrich the world." 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