Word: sox
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...baseball brains had it handicapped, the dash for the American League pennant did not shape up as much of a race. There were the Indians and the Yankees, front runners as usual. Maybe the White Sox could stand the pace. The rest of the league? Also rans...
...With thoroughgoing scorn for Kansas City's big-league pretensions, the Chicago White Sox slammed so many home runs (seven), and scored so often (29 times) as they whipped the Athletics, 29-6, that they tied the modern major-league scoring record for one team in one game. Co-record holders: the Boston Red Sox, who humiliated the St. Louis Browns...
Sixteen straight days of drizzle have postponed three Red Sox games so far this season, one on April 14 at Baltimore, and a double header on Patriot's Day, April 19, with the Washington Senators. The annual Boston Marathon ran that day, and despite the puddles along the route, Hideo Hamamura of Japan set a record for the event...
While classmate Walter Lippmann joined the College's Socialist Club, Reed did not. Nor did he learn radicalism in class. Another classmate, the late journalist Heywood Broun was able to quip later that he himself became a Communist because he went to see the Boston Red Sox play instead of listening to his economic's professor's lecture refuting Marx. But John Reed was not interested enough in his studies to learn Marxism in the classroom...
...Sox 1, Washington...