Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bucky Dent, the starting shortstop whose play has tested the loyalty of many a Yankee fan, coupled his bat with less-than-graceful Lou Piniella's glove to form one mammoth unsung hero for New York. Dent's three-run homer in the seventh that put the Yankees ahead silenced a too-cocky-for-such-a-close-game Fenway crowd, while Piniella's defensive efforts in Glaucoma Country (sundrenched right field) enabled the lead to hold...
...where does the Red Sox fan, instinctively wandering through the aftermath of the battle, wandering why "those guys Guidry and Jackson" always seem to do it while the Red Sox forever disappoint...
...time to get down to business and start stirring up some fan interest. First priority has to go to tonight's action at Fenway Park. There are still regular seats available, as well as the usual bleacher section. To get into the bleachers for either to night's or tomorrow's game against the Detroit Tigers (tonight) and the Toronto Blue Jays (Friday), show up between 6:00 and 6:30 and you should have no porblem getting in for the 7:30 game...
There's no way you can make a judgment about the performance of the defense except that it played well enough to win. Sure it surrendered 21, but those guys were out there for almost two-thirds of the game ("That cannot be!" says the fan who believes everything he has read about Harvard's clock-munching offense.). Bob Woolway did turn in an inspiring performance at linebacker in his first start. I appreciate the way he destroys everything but leaves women and small children standing...
...White House lawn, where Nelson, the king of outlaw country, put on a stompin' good show last week. The most eye-opening song of the evening: Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother. The President himself, a stock car racing buff and Nelson's No. 1 fan, had planned the party for members of the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, some of whom rolled up to the "diplomatic entrance" in their Day-Glo colored "stockers." Alas, Jimmy couldn't get away from his Israeli and Egyptian guests at Camp David, and Rosalynn was left to entertain...