Word: parkes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fireballing Bob Gibson momentarily derailed the Cinderella Express yesterday at Fenway Park as he silenced the Boston Red Sox's bats, leading his St. Louis Cardinals to a 2-1 win in the opening game of the 1967 World Series...
...packed house at Fenway was more delirious over Andrews' bunt then 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...
...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...
...against the California Angels on Wednesday, July 26, 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 on-lookers at Fenway Park were beginning to think that the bubble was ready to burst...
...Boston cut the Angels' lead to 5-4, had men on first and third with two out, and up stepped young Mike Andrews to the plate. On his previous at-bat, Andrews had missed a home run by a matter of feet when he belted one out of the park, barely foul. So here was the kid's chance to try to put one into Kenmore Square, be a super-hero, and get half a dozen stories in the next morning's Boston Globe about his wife, his children, his dog, his first grade teacher, his parents, his favorite brand...