Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Just a few minutes after the score Totman led several charges on the Big Red goal. Near the 10-minute mark, she sent a pass across the box that co-captain Beth Zotter lifted just over the crossbar, and a minute later sent a shot of her own barely wide left...
...next for Harvard, however is an away contest tomorrow against a very strong Boston College team. The match is just one of two matches against national powers in the near future...
...this decade, 1990, '95, '96 and '98. This record can be seen as one of remarkable consistency or futility ? your pick ? but it's certainly one that marks the Red Sox as a companionable second or third banana. They've been so often near, yet always as far as the distance between Bill Buckner's feet...
...Tuesday morning he said to my niece, Callie, who is 15 months old: ?"They just may win it in your lifetime." Pedro ? that's Martinez, of course ? had, the evening previous, pitched six hitless innings against the Cleveland Indians to cap (as they say in baseball) a near-miraculous comeback and lift the Red Sox into the American League Championship Series against the reviled Yankees. Scott tickled Callie under the chin and said, ?"They just may win it in your lifetime." They both giggled. Scott was making sport. He thought he was being funny...
...This year, by August she knew who Pedro and Nomar were, of course, and by Labor Day she knew that some rookie ??"Doobie?"?"It's Daubach, Mom" ? was having a fine campaign. Shortly thereafter the Sox went into Yankee Stadium near the tail end of a tremendous late-season road trip and swept the reigning world champions three straight, finishing by beating Roger Clemens. (He's a player in this saga, too. Is he ever.) I was vacationing on Nantucket with my wife and daughter, listening to the Clemens game on my mother-in-law's 30-year-old transistor...