Word: petrocelly
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Dates: during 1967-1967
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Desperate moves made by morons, the fans thought. But there was method to O'Connell's madness. Waiting in the wings were a host of good, young ballplayers--kids like Joe Foy, Rico Petrocelli and Andrews who had potential which was obvious to the Sox management. However, they were not going to get a chance to develop this potential by staying in the minor leagues, or sitting on the bench while older players went out there and didn...
...LOUISBOSTON Brock lf Adair 2b Flood cf Jones 3b Maris rf Yastrzemski lf Cepeda 1b Harrelson rf McCarver c Scott 1b Shannon 3b Petrocelli ss Javier 2b Smith cf Maxvill ss Gibson c Gibson p Santiago...
...Petrocelli cupped a feeble pop-up for the final out, the crowd spilled on-to the field. The Fall had begun. It was a reckless, selfish attempt to prolong that wild earlier feeling. But delirium turned to confusion, and the unskilled, inexperienced teenagers seized on greed to disguise dismay. Love became violence. They tore at Lonborg's uniform, dug their fingers into the mound, striped the bases, raped the scoreboard...
...Lonborg kicked high and fired at Twin's pinch-hitter Rich Rollins, who popped up to shortstop. As the ball disappeared into the glove of Rico Petrocelli, Lonborg disappeared in a swarm of Red Sox fans. Boston had beaten Minnesota, 5-3, for its first first-place finish in 21 years, and the Fenway crowd tore the score from the left-field scoreboard...
...home runs (101) and RBIs (402). Four Boston hitters ranked among the top dozen in the league: Leftfielder Carl Yastrzemski was batting .327 with 25 homers and 72 RBIs; Rightfielder Tony Conigliaro had 19 homers and a .305 average; First Baseman George Scott was hitting .290 and Shortstop Rico Petrocelli was at .280. On the mound, the Sox had Righthander Jim Lonborg, whose 14-4 record makes him the winningest pitcher in all of baseball. Last week, with 14 victories in 17 games, Boston was in second place, only a game behind the Chicago White...