The first stage will include: adding a new facility to the north endzone to house the football offices, weight room, training room, equipment room and locker room ; removing the track ; and adding a 13, 200-seat grandstand behind the north endzone.

The fairgrounds, built in the southwest corner of Corydon, are bordered on the south and west by a large ridge ; this ridge served as a natural grandstand until the first grandstand was built around 1910.

The track ( which could accommodate 2, 000 patrons in the clubhouse and another 4, 000 in the grandstand ) had an attendance of well over 12, 000 people ( its second-largest crowd since 1962 ) Funny Cide was the first winner of a Triple Crown race to run at Finger Lakes in its 46-year history.

“ The first grandstand was located on the long side of the track, while the second grandstand wasn ’ t completed until 1910.

The first permanent grandstand was built in 1936.

The first stage of the renovations were finished in time for the start of the 2012 season, with the addition of 7, 000 extra seats and 27 new corporate suites ( arranged to give the stadium a more " bowl "- like feel ), the SaskTel MaxTron video screen and scoreboard upgraded to a 60-foot LED screen ( with a second display directly alongside it in the shape of the province ), a new 55-inch video screen attached to the west grandstand, and ribbon screens along the bottom of the grandstands.

The field runs southwest-to-northeast in this configuration, with the south end zone along the first base line, and the north meeting near the left field wall to place optimum seating along the third base grandstand, and some temporary bleacher seating in center field.

The estate was purchased in 1903 by the millionaire Solly Joel, well known in horse racing circles, who had a racecourse on the estate, the racecourse was demolished during the first world war and the grandstand was re-erected at Newbury Racecourse.

At first base, the typical tag play occurs when the infielder's throw is high and to the left of the first baseman, causing him to jump and stretch his long mitt to catch the ball before it sails into the dugout or the grandstand.

This homer is the first to clear the right field grandstand at Forbes Field and is measured at 600 feet ( 183 m ).

In fact the only section of the actual grandstand that was built was the first level of the K. G.

The first 7 rows of the main grandstand are numbered box seats.

The Pennsylvania Derby, which first served as a Memorial Day replacement for the Jersey Derby after the original grandstand at Garden State Park was destroyed by a fire in 1978, was held on Labor Day until 2010 when the race was moved to the last Saturday in September, making it closer to the Breeders ' Cup World Championships, is a ( nine furlongs ) race for three year olds that has consistently attracted quality fields, and large crowds.

The first grandstand — one of three on the site — was built in 1881.

The stadium was reconfigured again in the mid-1970s to allow the expansion Toronto Blue Jays to play there, with additional seating opposite the covered grandstand on the first base side and curving around to the third base side.

The double-decked grandstand extended all the way across the south sideline ( first base line of the baseball field ), but ended halfway around the west end zone ( third base on the baseball diamond ).

The structure consisted of a covered grandstand stretching from first base to third base and uncovered bleacher sections down the right and left field lines.

The grandstand extended a short way past both first and third bases, and a clubhouse was located behind the center field fence.

At the first restaurant he sensibly pulled up to go in for his dinner, and as a consequence did not see Cobb strike the open range at the mouth of the canyon and head straight across the swells for Antler.

at first gratingly, caught by grains of corn -- then with a clash into its slot.

The smell at first was more surprising than unpleasant.

After he had spent the first three years in New York as associate conductor, at Toscanini's invitation, of the NBC Orchestra, he made numerous guest appearances throughout the United States and Latin America.

When I mentioned that for my first long voyage I did not even have the money for the return fare, but had trusted to luck that I would earn a sufficient amount, the young people looked at me doubtingly.

Yet when, at war's end, the ex-Tory made the first move to resume correspondence, Jay wrote him from Paris, where he was negotiating the peace settlement:

It was at my first Communion.

The highroad, one might say at first, belongs to life, while the way to the churchyard belongs to death.

Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;

It resembles, too, pictures such as Durer and Bruegel did, in which all that looks at first to be solely pictorial proves on inspection to be also literary, the representation of a proverb, for example, or a deadly sin.

Being somewhat delicate in health, at the age of sixteen he was sent to Southern Europe, for which he at once developed a passion, so that he spent nearly all of the following ten years abroad, at first in Italy, then in Greece, Egypt, Asia Minor, and Palestine.

She was more excited than frightened at the prospect of having her first child in a foreign land.

Even the first wave of homesickness had passed, although there were moments when Captain Heard pointed out on his compass the direction of Bradford that she felt a little twinge at her heart.

The first act of Adoniram and Samuel on reaching Calcutta was to report at the police station, a necessity when landing in East India Company territory.

He seemed timid ( at first, ) wore nose glasses from which a black ribbon dangled, and was no bigger than a jockey.

On one visit he stopped at the office of the American, where he was known surreptitiously as `` the Great White Chief '', and for the first time met his managing editor, fat Moses Koenigsberg.

It was probably at this period that Littlepage got his first good look at the ordinary Russian soldier.

We stopped first at the amphitheater that lies at the foot of the height crowned by the Parthenon.

The evening of our first day we drove with Christopher and Judy Sakellariadis, who were friends and patients of Norton, to dine at a restaurant on the shores of the Aegean.

Master Gorton, having foully abused high and low at Aquidneck is now bewitching and bemaddening poor Providence, both with his unclean and foul censures of all the ministers of this country ( for which myself have in Christ's name withstood him ), and also denying all visible and external ordinances in depth of Familism: almost all suck in his poison, as at first they did at Aquidneck.

In Australia, the grounds currently used are The Gabba in Brisbane ( first staged an England – Australia Test in the 1932 – 33 season ), Adelaide Oval ( 1884 – 85 ), The WACA, Perth ( 1970 – 71 ) the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ) ( 1876 – 77 ) and the Sydney Cricket Ground ( SCG ) ( 1881 – 82 ).

Nowadays Boxing Day is popular in Australia as the first day of a Test cricket match held at the MCG.

In the first ODI of the triangular tournament with New Zealand and Australia, he guided South Africa to victory against Australia at the MCG with 91 *, which won him the man of the match award.

The MCG was the home of Australia ’ s first full colour video scoreboard, which replaced the old scoreboard in 1982, located on Level 4 of the Ponsford Stand, with a second video screen added in 1994 almost directly opposite, located on Level 4 of the Olympic stand ..

The first inter-colonial cricket match to be played at the MCG was between Victoria and New South Wales in March 1856.

Their first game was at the MCG on New Year ’ s Day 1862, against a Victorian XVIII.

The first Test cricket match was played at the MCG in 1877

Two years later Lord Harris brought another England team out and during England ’ s first innings in the Test at the MCG, Fred Spofforth took the first hat-trick in Test cricket.

Later that year, the Honourable Ivo Bligh led a team of eight amateurs and four professionals to Australia to recover them, with the first two matches of the tour played at the MCG.

Australia ’ s highest first class score was posted at the MCG when Victoria made 1107 against New South Wales in 1926 – 27.

Not only was the first Test match played at the MCG, the first One Day International match was also played there, on 5 January 1971, between Australia and England.

His chances of hitting his first ball for six on the vast MCG were apparently nil and even if he did manage to get it over the fence New Zealand would not win but only draw the game.

The first officially recognised Test match commenced on 15 March 1877, contested by England and Australia at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ( MCG ), where Australia won by 45 runs.

A world record crowd of 63, 993 at the MCG saw Bradman come to the crease on the first day of the Second Test with the score at 2 / 67.

The next week they faced Sydney at the MCG, for the first time since 2006.

The major controversy of his first season was the Underarm Incident, which involved his two younger brothers in an ODI played between Australia and New Zealand at the MCG.

The Australian cricket team participated in the first Test match at the MCG in 1877, defeating an English team by 45 runs, with Charles Bannerman making the first Test century, a score of 165 retired hurt.

With a contribution of 11 runs in the first innings of the MCG 2005 Boxing Day Test versus South Africa, he stood his ground for 53 deliveries, helping Michael Hussey push the Australian tail to a record tenth wicket stand against South Africa of 107 runs.

After Australia lost the first two Tests in the Ashes series, Border was selected for his Test debut at the MCG.

He then made his first Test century on Australian soil, scoring 105 in the First Test against South Africa at the MCG.