Word: buts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Memories can be pretty foggy after 20 years. My sense of time, my ordering of events will be scrambled. I'll only remember bits and pieces, images and snapshots. But here's what I will say:
Staub is more effective as the gangster-type, right-hand man than as the boxer whom Lanx later becomes. Lanx burns with the desire to control people, but Staub gives the stereotypical shady character amusing mannerisms which reveal his true weaknesses.
"Roger struck out 20. Dave Henderson saved the day. Twice. The Pru lights made a '1.' But Schiraldi, Stanley and Buckner did bad things. Wade Boggs cried. A lot of other people did, too.
The kid will look at me and frown. Like you, he probably won't understand a word I say. But I understand every single one. That's what memories are all about.
Fitzgerald, who had served as the paper's faculty adviser for 12 years, said the editorial tried to claim protection under the First Amendment, but he disagreed. He said it was just a matter of poor journalism.