Word: jacksons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Reggie Jackson drove in the game's winning run in the eighth with a Reggie Jackson-type home run to straightaway center field. The abortive comeback effort by the Sox in the last two frames may dull the memory of Jackson's clout, but it cannot deny the importance. Reggie Jackson was once again the hero on the type of battlefield where he can be nothing else, when the battle is all or most of the marbles...
...where does the Red Sox fan, instinctively wandering through the aftermath of the battle, wandering why "those guys Guidry and Jackson" always seem to do it while the Red Sox forever disappoint...
After looking like Little Leaguers against sharp ex-Yankee righthander Mike Torrez for the first six innings, the Bronx Bombers stunned the partisan crowd by surging into a 5-2 lead in the seventh and eighth innings on home run blasts by Bucky Dent and Reggie Jackson, sandwiched around Thurman Munson's RBI double...
...gambled all my life and have been in a lot of photo finishes, but this is the biggest I've ever lost," Boston manager Don Zimmer--who pulled Torrez two batters two late, reliever Bob Stanley one batter too late (after Jackson's HR), and mysteriously pinch hit Bob Bailey for Jack Brohamer in the seventh inning--said afterward...
Pressure-pumped Reggie Jackson supplied it, and why not? On Stanley's fourth pitch to Jackson--and the seventh and last of his brief relief stint--the Yankee slugger took a fastball out over the plate and sent it air-mail express to the centerfield bleachers--5-2 now, and climbing...