Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...been a long time. Longer, in fact, than most of us have been alive. But today we aren't thinking about those twenty-one dry years. For the Sox are back on top. They are the American League pennant winners--the gustiest, most resilient champs in a long time...
...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...
...final act, however, was being staged in Detroit, where the Tigers still nursed a chance of beating California to force the Sox into a playoff. For the next three hours, all Boston turned to the radio--and waited...
Detroit was rained out again last night and along with Minnesota and the Red Sox who clash today and tomorrow still has a shot at the flag...
Despite a chance of scattered showers and more publicized television clashes between the Red Sox and Twins, Damascus and Dr. Fager, Benvenuti and Griffith, and Dartmouth and Massachusetts, a crowd of 12,000 is expected to show up for the debut of the 1967 Crimson...