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...cover the team this season. "She's been brutalized. I'm not sure it would be fair to send her back," says Herald executive sports editor Bob Sales. Furthermore, he says, "she is not in any shape" to cover the Boston Red Sox, contenders for baseball's American League pennant...
...Triple A, gets promoted to the haggard Atlanta Braves in mid-May and hits 28 home runs: out of nowhere, into orbit. The arms of half the Dodgers' pitchers fall off, but the slim, steely mound grace of rookie Ramon Martinez helps sustain Los Angeles in a last-gasp pennant race...
...these teams, the thrill is in finishing first, not fast. In a pennant race, closeness is all, and 1990 could boast a crucial series: Toronto-Boston last weekend, with brilliant, battered Roger Clemens appearing - to pitch the Sox to a tangy win. Early autumn abounds in such epiphanies. But then what? The survivors, already winded like nicotine addicts in a marathon, will have to consider a more daunting task: facing the Oakland Athletics...
With the summer finally over, very little is clear about the two contests Bostonians care about most: the campaign for governor and the race for the American League pennant...
...trademark black shadow under his eyes. Everybody loved Bucky. The girls dropped dead at the mention of his name and wore their "I Love Bucky" T-shirts all around town. I loved him for his rare but timely shot over the Green Monster in Fenway which destroyed Boston's pennant dreams...