Word: boyd
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...Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd's locker was a portrait of Satchel Paige wearing his Negro Leagues Kansas City Monarchs uniform. Over the 39 years they have been allowed to win World Series' games, six black pitchers have done it: Joe Black of Brooklyn, Bob Gibson of St. Louis, Jim ("Mudcat") Grant of Minnesota, John Wyatt of Boston, John ("Blue Moon") Odom of Oakland and Grant Jackson of Pittsburgh. Before the third game, when the Mets appeared ready to be vanquished if not swept in Boston, Boyd began to imagine himself in the baggy flannels of another day. By the time...
...Davey Johnson had less opportunity to be serene. But even with a full parcel of rest against worn Third-Game Winner Bob Ojeda, Cy Young-elect Roger Clemens' near best was just not quite enough. Darling could test his dream one final time against Dennis ("Oil Can") Boyd. Dave Henderson and Lenny Dykstra, Boston's and New York's respective symbols of play-off miracles, kept it up through six games, until Hurst began sending Dykstra back to earth swinging and stamping his feet. Several centuries ago, the Sox were down to Henderson's last swing in California...
Singing Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" and the Mets theme song, "Meet the Mets," the group competed with a bevy of Sox fans who chanted "Oil Can, Oil Can," is the nickname of Dennis Boyd--the scheduled Sox starter in the seventh and deciding World Series game...
This letter is in response to The Crimson's editorial of October 2, 1986, and the accompanying tasteless cartoon about the Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) program and new AIDS testing policy. The editorial inaccurately represents the issue and "A Boyd's Eye View" was more myopic than insightful. The essay was particularly disturbing because it is typical of the campus misconception about ROTC and ignored the many pertinent reasons why Harvard students should be allowed to participate in the program...
Boston starter Dennis "Oil Can" Boyd, who had to be restrained by teammates when Cooney originally called Joyner safe, was locked in a 1-1 duel with John Candelaria...