Green Monster (1967); Death Valley (1967)

[Laurence Horn]

At 10:03 PM -0400 7/16/03, Bapopik at AOL.COM wrote:
>GREEN MONSTER
>
>    The UPI and AP sports stories--even in small town
>newspapers--should give us an early "monster."  See ADS-L archives
>for a few days earlier, though.
>
>
>    12 October 1967, CHRONICLE-TELEGRAM (Elyria, Ohio), pg. 45, col. 1:
>_Green Monster bothers_
>_Cardinals at Boston_
>By BERNARD CAUGHEY
>    BOSTON (UPI)--The "green monster" snared the St. Louis Cardinals Wednesday.
>(...)(Col. 2--ed.)
>    The "green monster" is a towering, green-painted wall in left
>field.  And until now the Cards--to a man--have denied it bothered
>them.
>

Then there's the question of the first citing of "the Green
Mawnstuh", or various alternate mock-Bostonian renderings for the
holy (but now desanctified) Fenway landmark.

larry