bleachers

Mountains of ice surround them like bleachers in an arena—if the bleachers were below freezing and stretched taller than skyscrapers.

“As a friend told me, ‘I reached the top of the mountain for my craft,’” Goodrich told Poly students who filled up the bleachers.

A crowd of thousands pounded their feet on bleachers creating a thunderous sound as the sun set over the wealthy Forest Hills neighborhood.

When the ball landed in the right-center field bleachers, a party more than three decades in the making broke out among the 44,353 in attendance at the Rogers Centre.

But this was no substitute for them playing on a team—or for me cheering on the bleachers.