Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NINTH--RED SOX FAN has all the speed and should sock it to them...
After he sold his controlling interest in the Chicago White Sox in 1961, Bill Veeck never stopped itching to "get involved again with people." In his best-selling 1962 autobiography Veeck-As in Wreck, he vowed: "Look for me under the arc lights, boys, I'll be back." Now, thumping the promotional drums as loudly as ever, the old Barnum of baseball has returned-but not to baseball. He is the new president and part owner of East Boston's Suffolk Downs race track...
...gimmickry recalls the Veeck of old, who was baseball's most imaginative impresario. While operating the Cleveland Indians (1946-49), the St. Louis Browns (1951-53) and the White Sox (1959-61), he annoyed fellow owners by introducing jugglers and tightrope walkers into the pre-game festivities and staging cow-milking contests for players. Though Veeck is perhaps best remembered as the man who sent a 3-ft. 7-in. midget to bat against the Detroit Tigers,* he also performed some praiseworthy services for the game. He broke the color barrier in the American League by hiring Outfielder Larry...
...Basketball Association, managed to blow four straight games in the playoffs to the New York Knicks. But hope is on the wing again. Last week, at the season's midpoint, baseball's highflying Orioles enjoyed a lavish 10½-game lead over the second-place Boston Red Sox in the American League's Eastern Division. With a won-lost percentage over .700-by far the best in either league -the Orioles have clearly established themselves as the team to beat...
...most perfect ending to a perfect season. It was the Red Sox winning the pennant, or the New Hampshire primary. It was a victory of the unknowns. Sophomore Bill Kelly, a reserve defensive back, and ends Pete Varney and Bruce Freeman became over-night heroes. And for Frank Champi, the moon-faced second string quarterback, it was a dream--not the dream he says he had the night before--but the dream he lived on the field...