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...American League Eastern Division race ended the only way it should have ended yesterday, with "baseball's Athens and Sparta" meeting at the Pass at Fenway to stage the ultimate epic and write a decisive final chapter to a title and a season that were undecided throughout...
...before setting off again. Then I went for half an hour before resting. I started again, sweating now, breathing harder, throat drying, back and legs burning from the sun, and as I came around a ledge I ran smack into what joggers call The Wall. Not The Wall at Fenway Park, but a massive physiological-psychological being who sits on your chest and squeezes your lungs and makes each step an act of supreme will worthy of a Nietzschean Superman...
Boston is now one game out of first place in the American League East, with only two games remaining in the season. But excellent Red Sox hitting, fielding and intense desire--coupled with a Cleveland lead through seven-and-a-half innings--turned routine Fenway cheers into standing ovations; hopes began to fly, and even Don Zimmer managed an airy smile...
...apocalypse has taken over Fenway Park. With the cutting 45 degree elements shedding a weird glow to this summer sport, fans sipped hot chocolate and pressed their ears to transistor radios straining to hear the outcome of the ever-more-important ball games in New York. New York went on to beat the Toronto Blue Jays 3-1 behind Ron Guidry's 24th win, and not surprisingly, the tight defensive play of the Red Sox didn't cheer anyone up. They are still second best. And there are three games left in the season...
Leading off the bottom of the fourth inning, Rice slammed a Young pitch over 400 feet away into the quaalude-infested Fenway bleachers, warming hopes and faith for a brief moment in the evening...