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...Boston Red Sox should not be pennant contenders. History says that no team whose pitching staff is built around guys named Waslewski, Brandon and Stange should be anywhere but tenth place. Propriety says that Proper Bostonians should not go beserk 30,000 at a time. But a trip to Fenway Park and a glance at the major-league standings shows that the improbable is happening--and the impossible may just be around the corner...
Consider their game against the California Angels on Wednesday, for instance. Darrell Brandon, their starter, had been bombed, predictably enough, and Boston was trailing, 5-2 in the seventh inning. The Sox had had a ten-game winning streak shattered the night before, and 31,000 onlookers at Fenway Park were beginning to think that the bubble was ready to burst...
...packed house at Fenway was more delirious over Andrews' bunt than any of the fireworks which preceded or followed it. His neat piece of strategy demonstrated a trait which was, until this year, a total stranger to Fenway Park. Intelligence...
...make the headlines over the Detroit riots, where politicians invoke the ball club's name in attacks on the governor, and where even arty types are catching pennant fever, the biggest crowd of the season (34,193) gushed with emotion that has been unknown in Fenway Park since Ted Williams led the team to the Series...
Even with the temporary seats, Fenway doesn't hold as much as Harvard Stadium. Harvard holds 37,283 spectators...