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...calendar on the clubhouse wall claims it has been nearly six months since the Boston Red Sox have played baseball at their Jersey St. hangout, but the 32,000 fans on hand for yesterday's Fenway opener knew better. It has been just a long yesterday since the Series games of Luis Tiant's pitching gyrations and Carlton Fisk's dancing home run--and the dream deferred last October quickly redeveloped for the Fenway faithful as the Red Sox, powered by a ten hit attack, downed the Cleveland Indians yesterday...
...played for all of 1974 for the Red Sox in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, Then last year he made the Bristol (Conn.) Red Sox, of the Eastern League, Double A ball, a prayer away from the Pawtucket Red Sox which is in turn a prayer away from Boston and Fenway and eternal bliss...
There's only one thing running against him--the fact that left-handed pitchers have never been a prize commodity in Fenway Park with its short left field wall, and the staff only retains one starter who's a leftie, and two or three relievers. Three pitchers (Craig Skoke, Steve Baar, Roger Moret) have vacated with only one left-handed acquisition (Tom House), but the minor league pitching "is the best we've ever had, all the way down through the organization," according to Slack and his 25 years. His future might be with another team, particularly...
...Deer Island, like Fenway Park, creates special problems, giving a slight advantage to the home team. It is only a foot wider on each side than the width of the basketball court itself, and the floor is of slick concrete. During the game players frequently smacked into the wall or bruised their knuckles trying to save the ball from going out of bounds...
...optimistic. Paul Grogan, a precinct organizer in the Fenway, said he was "scared." Grogan said he did not expect White to pull the 70 per cent Fenway majority over State Sen. Joseph Timilty that he had carried off in the preliminary election...