Word: boomer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...punting game, A1 (Don't call me Fred) MacMurray never gave the Lions outrageous field position, and did manage to crank a 62-yarder in the second quarter. My personal feeling is that Harvard punting can't get anything but better after Scotty Coolidge's 10-yard boomer against Princeton last fall...
...Boomer's glove--not his often erratic bat--gave Boston that win. With runners at second and third, one out, and Rusty Staub at the plate, the Sox had their fourth pitcher of the night, lefty Andy Hassler, attempting to put away...
...place if they sweep the three-game set. Watch for Cecil Cooper, erstwhile Bosox first-baseman who went out to Diaryland in the infamous George "Two-Outs-for-the-Price-of-One" Scott trade, to do some heavy-duty slugging, making the Sox management wish they had left the Boomer and his high-priced bat out there with the cows and hops. But whatever you do, watch...
...back to The Slump. I can't remember seeing the Sox so feeble at the plate at any time since 1975. George Scott looks pathetic--but you have to feel sorry for the Boomer. It's painful watching Boston's racist fans get on him in particular (although he is in a worse slump than anyone else) when the rest of the team is messing up, too. But Boomer's heroics of late make you wonder yet again about that trade with Milwaukee two years ago for Cecil Cooper. Cecil is 25 and a future great, but for the Boomer...
Virtually all that was left now were a couple of sideshows. George Scott lashed a triple to right in the seventh and buffaloed around the bases as if his sliding pads were on fire. The Boomer came in to score the final run of the day on Swight Evans's single up the middle...