Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course, for the indiscriminate fan, looking for neither skill nor good competition, the Boston Red Sox and the Washington Senators will jostle at Fenway Park Friday night, Saturday afternoon, and wind up with a big, action-packed doubleheader on Sunday...
...Sox, a perennial local favorite, have actually shown some early season promise. Utilizing trick weapons such as home runs by .161 batters, and home run sluggers who can't run or bend over, they have flirted with the idea of entering the first division. Under new manager Johnny Pesky, many wonderful changes have been made. For example, the Sox now run onto the filed. In fact, mirabile dictu, most of this New Breed even run out infield grounders. The effect of this unaccustomed strain is, as yet, undetermined. But, many old, seasoned observers fear that it may prove disastrous...
...recent addition to the Sox, but obviously an old kin in spirit, Dick Stuart still hasn't quite learned the knack of running. But then with his big, authoritative bat, he doesn't have to hustle on the base paths; he either homers or strikes out. Singles seem beneath his dignity...
Tink Gunnoe's sprained back deserves priority as the major injury in a whole host of Crimson aches and pains. The junior attackman hurt his back against maker and high-scorer, the varsity will closely resemble the Red Sox since Ted Williams' retirement...
Forget the Fallout. "Not since the Chicago White Sox threw the 1919 World Series," trumpeted the Post, "has there been a sports story as shocking as this one." The story came from George Burnett, an Atlanta insurance salesman who claims to have been accidentally hooked into a long-distance call between Butts and Bryant eight days before last season's opening game between Georgia and Alabama. Burnett says he heard the operator call the two men by name, and that when he heard Bryant ask Butts, "Do you have anything for me?" he began taking notes. But he stashed...