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...screaming fans looked on, Boston starter and winner Dennis Boyd got Blue Jay Kelly Gruber to pop out to first base to end the game. Boyd lept into catcher Rich Gedman's arms in celebration as Bill Buckner put away the final...
...other team in the league had such a strong starting rotation? One has to look back a decade, to Baltimore's Palmer-Cuellar-Dobson-MacInally rotation to find such an agglomeration of hurlers on one American League team. Nor have the Sox, who now sport the rotation of Clemens-Boyd-Hurst-Seaver-Nipper, boasted such pitching in a decade. One wonders whether Clemens, Boyd and Hurst would have all won 20 games if Hurst's leg and Boyd's head muscles had been in working order earlier in the season...
...bulging man with flashing eyes and a gray goatee, Giamatti has probably muttered "Damn Yankees" once or twice before but favors neither young Joe Hardy nor old Joe Boyd as much as Mr. Applegate. He claims no athletic laurels. "I was the kid in high school who carried water and kept score." But his particular affection for "the fundamental grid, the geometric beauty of baseball" has always been profound. "My first glove was one left behind by an American soldier in Italy." Giamatti's father Valentine was there on sabbatical from the languages department at Mount Holyoke College. Though Italian...
...willing to run different events to help the team," says track Co-Captain Douglas Boyd. "He's a leader by example--Cliff's an amazing runner and a great competitor...
...expect Moose to go out every time and hold a team to one or two runs. There are going to be days we have to win the five and six-run games, not just for Moose but for all our pitchers," said Carney Lansford, who homered off both Boyd and Stanley...