Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharp wind scatters the paper along Landsdowne Street behind Fenway Park. Once the street was a sea of fans, breaking against the left field wall, impatient to pour in and sweep the Sox to World Series victory. Now the Series is over, the waves subsided, the street dark and deserted...
...gutters, the sea has left its residue-dirty napkins, newspapers, cigarette wrappers, paper cups. "Boston Red Sox, World Series Champs," proclaimed a battered sign in red crayon, before someone crossed out "Champs" and wrote in "Chumps" in blue ball-point, "Win or Lose, the '67 Sox Will Never Be Forgotten," headlines a trampled newspaper...
What's this? The towering Fenway arc-lights burn brightly. Can there be more to come? Of course, that's it--it's all a mistake. Yaz is in there taking post-game batting practice. He'll nap before tomorrow's game, belt a couple of homers, and the Sox will be champions of the world...
Still it's hard to believe that it's really over. From the season opener last April on, the Sox were always down but never out. Hadn't we named them the "Cinderella Kids?" Week after week someone always came along to save them-Elston Howard from the Yankees, Ken Harrelson from the A's, Yaz with a homer, Jerry Adair with a clutch hit. Why should we have expected it to be any different today...
Behind him half a dozen men pack several cartons of garters, buttons and pennants into a Hertz Rent-a- Truck. "Go-Go Red Sox," one box reads, "Dick Williams for President." says another. Down the way, the NBC color television crew winds its cables and packs its lights and cameras into three large vans...