Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...statistics with little more than morbid fascination. Only four batters in the American League are hitting over .300, not a single Yankee is among the top ten, and guess who's leading the Yankee-eclipsed league in home runs? Somebody named Dick Stuart of the Boston Red Sox, with 36. The team batting average of the National League-leading Dodgers this year is .251; last year at this time it was 21 points higher...
...office leaders, the New York Yankees and the Los Angeles Dodgers, both report declines: 14,270 fro the Yanks, 38,935 for the Dodgers. Total big-league attendance is down 126,158, and the figure would be far worse except for Boston-where the surprising Red Sox, with the two top American League hitters in the lineup and exciting Dick Radatz in the bullpen, have attracted 275,082 extra fans...
...Worth 50 Games." Last week the Boston Red Sox were third in the American League, only 1½ games behind the leading New York Yankees. And the man who put them there was Relief Pitcher Radatz, 26. He stands 6 ft. 5 in., weighs 240 Ibs., wears a size 17½ collar and size 14 shoes. Even his 1963 record is Bunyanesque: seven wins, only one loss, 93 strikeouts, and a phenomenal 1.16 earned-run average, best by far in the majors. At one point this sea son, Radatz went 33 straight innings without giving up a run. Last week...
...Finally Realized." A Michigan State graduate, signed by the Red Sox in 1959 for a $20,000 bonus, Radatz sulked at first when he was assigned to the bullpen. "Everybody wants to be a starter," he says. "But I finally realized that the only way I was going to make the majors was to obey orders. If they wanted me to be a starter now, I'd regard it as a demotion. Being a relief man pays good...
...fact, the Baltimore club quickly became immersed in one of the major slumps of the year and fell to the bottom of the League. Other challengers, like the White Sox, Cleveland, and Boston, flirted with the idea of actually leading the League, but eventually gave it up as too dangerous...