1. Baseball parks also have ads on dugout walls, on upper-deck facades and on bullpen walls. 2. Before the game, a couple of Dodgers were giving shortstop Mark Grudzielanek some grief, reminding him the dugout walls are made of cement. 3. Bresnahan, then in his fourth year in professional baseball and still only a second-string minor league catcher, saw the writing on the dugout wall. 4. He cursed aloud, and Valentine winced and banged a fist against the dugout wall. 5. In the middle innings, Torre lowered his cap so that his eyes were almost completely hidden and leaned his head back against the dugout wall. 6. It was enough to have Valentine pounding the dugout walls in disgust on the first day of the season. 7. Phil Regan nonchalantly posted the lineup card on the dugout wall and turned and walked away. 8. The last minuscule reminder of the sham that was replacement baseball disappeared from Plant City Stadium on Tuesday when a writer ripped a lineup card off the dugout wall. 9. The personality of left field will be duct-taped to the dugout wall. 10. To increase revenue more dramatically, teams have also covered stadium fences and dugout walls with commercial signs and added rotating advertising behind home plate. |
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