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...called Darrell Johnson, the manager who inadvertently led the Sox to the pennant in 1975, all right, because he didn't show up for a lot of games. He was the lesser of two evils when compared to Zimmer...
...history. There were other problems-there always are with the Yankees-but the team created by Owner George Steinbrenner's money managed to make one of the most remarkable comebacks in baseball history. New York rallied from 14 games behind the Boston Red Sox to win a rousing pennant race and show the kind of poise and resiliency they would later need-and display-against the Dodgers...
WELCOME BACK! shouted the Post's 110-point Page One headline, over a picture spread of the New York Yankees stepping off a plane after their 10-4 defeat by Kansas City in the second game of the American League pennant playoffs. Newspaper-starved New Yorkers, who had subsisted on a diet of generally skimpy interim strike papers, crowded around subway kiosks and street-corner newsstands to snatch up copies of the city's first real-life newspaper since Aug. 9. The first edition of 128 pages-twice as big as usual-was fat with pre-Columbus...
...time, Lee's words, unbeknownst to him or his much-maligned manager, were more than prophetic; they defined the basic, time-hankering flaw of the Boston Red Sox: They are an obsessive team, so narrowly focused on winning an elusive pennant that they are too inflexible to cope with sudden injuries, slumps and clubhouse conflicts. They are tragic heroes in a city full of tragic heroes. And so, for Boston baseball fans, the Red Sox are true heroes, the perfect cast of real-life drama...
...maybe 99 games a season and we still don't win a pennant," Don Zimmer moaned after the 161st game of the season. "What can we do about...