Word: causeway
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fool. The management that traded him to Montreal, that benched him during the gasping stretch of the 1978 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...
...YEARS LATER this memory couldn't have been farther from George Scott's eyes, or closer to Carl Yastrzemski's. Like one man. One frustrated, effaced, proud, loser of a man, whose endless beers never turn to champagne in the Causeway St. bar after the game, after the seasons, ever since 1918. Up on the wall behind the bartender and mountains of bottles are portraits of Tris Speaker, Babe Ruth, Lefty Grove, Ted Williams, Jim Lonborg, Carl Yastrzemski, and John F. Kennedy. They all got away...
...road, where it landed upside down with its tail curled around its fuselage. Frederic uprooted century-old oak trees and heavily damaged historic buildings along Government Street. It tore the roofs off houses on the nearby resort of Dauphin Island and carried away most of the eight-mile causeway to the mainland. Lamented one Mobile resident: "Landmarks we have known for years just aren't here any more...
Allman Brothers Band--Boston Garden, Causeway St. Telephone 227-3200. Aug. 24, 8 p.m. Tickets $11, $9.50, $8.50 available at box office and major ticket outlets...
...could run through the corridors of Boston Garden screaming, alternately, "We're Number One!" and "We're really gonna do it, the Cup is coming back!," before a few hundred of them could scale the plexiglass and mob their heroes, and before the cheering masses could spill happily onto Causeway St., the Bruins had to win a hockey game last night...