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...Yankees fought while they won. Martin nearly brawled with Reggie Jackson in the dugout at Fenway Park on June 18, 1977. It was a dispute with Jackson that led to Martin's first Yankee firing the next season...
...nearly a half year 1100 workers in the Dorchester and Fenway areas of Boston have known they will lose their jobs when two Sears plants close their doors this winter...
Gary Gaetti, Minnesota's powerful third baseman, imagines there will be five characters in these play-offs, counting the Homerdome. "The dome is home, man," he says slyly. "We use it." As discombobulating to strangers as Fenway's great Wall, the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome has seen 56 Twins victories this championship season, their first in 17 years. "There are tricky little things about it," reports Gaetti, one of three Twins with 30 homers (and Outfielder Kirby Puckett has 28). "Balls bounce funny in certain spots. They get lost in the ceiling and die in the rightfield corner...
...reason to be hopeful. The Red Sox won the American League Championship last year and were one measly strike away from winning the World Series. One strike. At an early game this year, the Fenway Park crowd chose instead to remember the play-offs, in particular the fifth game in which centerfielder Dave Henderson hit a two-strike, two-out home run to steal the series from the California Angels. The bleachers rocked with chants of "Game Number 5!" until Henderson smiled and doffed...
This Sunday, as I wolf down Fenway Franks and unshelled peanuts, slurp watered-down beer, sing "Take Me Out to The Ballgame," and enjoy the last Red Sox game of the year, I'll be as full of hope as I was seven months ago in Kissimmee. The Red Sox have a large crop of fine rookies: Sam.Horn (14 home runs in only 130 at bats), Mike Greenwell (87 runs batted in in 120 games), Ellis Burks(20 home runs, 26 stolen bases). With Oil Can returning, Rice rediscovering his home run swing, Schiraldi finding new life in the starting...