Word: backe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While rain and mud may hold back a ground and cause fumbles, the usual fear of an offense under such conditions is interceptions. For Harvard, the ground game never got cranked up and quarterback Burke St. John was forced...
...Yale-Cornell contest pitted the nation's top-ranked defensive team, Yale, against the Ivy League's best offensive eleven. Through three and one-half quarters, it seemed like offensive power would prevail, as the Big Red, after trailing 17-6 at the half, stormed back to lead 20-17 with six minutes to play...
...season in favor of Pawtucket sweetmeat, was. With more than 50 years worth of cameras and newsclips and Causeway St. anecdotes, there's Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Sparky Lyle, Ernie Shore, Dutch Leonard, Duffy Lewis, Cecil Cooper, the heroes whose promise was traded for cash or mediocrity. Back, further into the piles of faded photographs and daguerreotypes of old-looking men in baggy, dusty uniforms, there's Lou Boudreau, Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda, Ellston Howard, the heroes that Red Sox management fielded in the waning years of their lives. The Picture History of the Boston...
...with the detached hindsight of recent interviews, or with the purpose of a sportswriter trying to find the real reason why the Red Sox blew it this year, but with the eye of the media, and mostly, the eye of those who have followed the Red Sox, and come back for more...
Sullivan--a former sports columnist for the old Boston Herald-Traveler, offers his most insightful writing in an appraisal of Fenway's fans: How do you describe Red Sox fans? Devoted. Patient. Long-suffering. And perhaps a little masochistic, always coming back for more frustration after having their hearts broken. They have even been rooting for the Red Sox at some road games and you wonder which is the visiting team...Fenway's fans--they're a rare species, some of the world's best...and a few of the worst...