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Remembering Shea stadium

By Robert Cassidy
Special to ESPN.com

Monday, September 29, 2008

NEW YORK -- In the classic Academy Award-winning film, "On the Waterfront," Terry Malloy, the ex-pug played brilliantly by Marlin Brando, laments never getting "a title shot outdoors in the ballpark." There was a time when fighting outdoors in a ballpark meant a boxer had reached the pinnacle of his sport. A fight was moved to a stadium only when promoters expected a windfall at the gate. Jack Dempsey once drew 82,000 to the Polo Grounds and Joe Louis packed 70,000 into Yankee Stadium. Even co ...

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