Win or Lose, It’s Curtains in Toronto

When the World Series resumes tonight in Toronto’s SkyDome, don’t expect a repeat of the impromptu sex show that caught the attention of fans at a Toronto-Seattle game on May 15, 1990. Patrons of one of the SkyDome’s rooms overlooking the playing field decided to do a little playing of their own that night--with the drapes open.

The next day, the hotel received “hundreds of calls from people wanting to book that very same room,” said Ray Thompson, general manager of the SkyDome hotel.

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Add SkyDome: Fans who booked one of the 70 rooms for this year’s Series--from $850 to $1,175 per game night--had to sign waivers that stipulate they will not engage in “inappropriate activity.”

At least, not with the drapes open.

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Trivia time: How many times has UCLA played Notre Dame in football?

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Highway hits: Baseball great Ted Williams has become the king of the roads, reveals David Martindale in the Sporting News.

A new tunnel under Boston Harbor will be known as Ted Williams Tunnel and Massachusetts already has a Ted Williams Highway, on Route 9. Plus, a street in San Diego, his hometown, was renamed Ted Williams Parkway in the summer of 1992.

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One man’s way: Arnold Palmer, playing in the Ralphs Senior Classic at Rancho Park, has a new trimmed-down look after losing 20 pounds. He told The Times’ Dan Hafner how he lost it:

“I stopped eating ice cream and other good things.”

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Headline headache: Lucky for headline writers that the Philadelphia team changed its name back to the Phillies in 1946. Reader Dave Blume recalls that the team’s nickname in 1944 and 1945 was the Blue Jays.

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No long shot: Anybody want to bet on Zimbabwe to win the World Cup of Golf?

Don’t laugh. It’s a good possibility with Nick Price and Mark McNulty representing the South African nation in the Nov. 11-14 competition. Play will be on the Lake Nona course in Orlando, Fla., which is Price’s home course.

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Close to home: Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, has Bruce Jenner Stadium. Bruce Jenner’s second wife was Linda Thompson, who once lived with Elvis Presley at Graceland mansion in Memphis.

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Rocky Mt. high: The Colorado Rockies’ final team batting average at Mile High Stadium was .306. On the road it was .240.

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X-rated: From Bruce Keidan of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: “Maybe all Phillie games should start after dark. So small children alone at home after school can’t watch. Better your tyke should see ‘Nightmare on Elm Street,’ Parts 1 through 12, than be exposed to Lenny Dykstra spitting tobacco all over himself and the field.”

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Add Phillies: From reader George Kiseda: “After watching Skid Row’s Team of the Year (a.k.a. the Phillies), I now understand why a lot of people object to NAFTA, the controversial free-trade agreement.

“Apparently it requires us to send our most gross national product across the border.”

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Trivia answer: Twice, losing, 27-12, in 1963, and 24-0, in 1964.

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Quotebook: Chi Chi Rodriguez, on why he never uses a golf ball with a number higher than 4: “I don’t see how you can make a 4 with a 5.”