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Nevertheless, regular admission was hiked this season from $3 to $5. This backfired too as attendance plummeted. The price of a game was no longer comparable to that of a movie or a grandstand seat at Fenway Park...
...following night, the Reds won the seventh game and the world championship on a bloop single in the ninth inning. In the Globe, Gammons wrote: "She is in retreat this morning, Olde Fenway; resting. Her affair with Kismet fell through at the very last, and while it was good, it was not to be this time...
...this year, either. When Rick Burleson singaled to score Butch Hobson in the 15th inning Sunday, Fenway's dismal affair with the 1976 ended. As the right field bleachers clock steadily ticked off the final minutes of the season, a sign hanging below it already proclaimed next spring's hopes: "WE'LL GET 'EM NEXT YEAR! SOX of '77 NO. 1." As Burleson singled, the clock solemnly proclaimed "6:09," then shut...
...next year," the fan said. "OK, have a good winter," the vendor called back, smiling from beneath his grey stubble. Behind them, Fenway Park loomed majestically, smiling quietly from beneath the late afternoon shadows...
...that is where the Red Sox and congratulations come in. For the second straight season the Red Sox have demonstrated the uncertainties in sport. In that endless summer of 1975, when even the Fenway pigeons seemed to sing, the Bosox defied the critics who had put them behind Baltimore and New York in their division, who had forecast the A's in three, and the Big Red Machine to roll in four...