Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...City and Chicago, massive scoreboards lit up like Christmas trees when the home team homered; cannons roared and rockets seared the summer sky. In Boston. American League Batting Champion Pete Runnels, a singles hitter, rode the bench while Manager Mike Higgins struggled to get more power into the Red Sox lineup. With one week still to go, an unprecedented 2,596 homers had already been hit. The Yankees set a team record. San Francisco's Willie Mays hit four in one game. New York's John Blanchard managed four in four trips to the plate. Baltimore...
Biggest Moments. But as a ballplayer, Maris still is no match for Babe Ruth. A rollicking, muffin-headed giant (6 ft. 2 in., 230 Ibs.) with the slender legs of a showgirl, Ruth was the finest baseball player who ever lived. As a pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, he won 46 games in two seasons, pitched 29 consecutive scoreless World Series innings-a record that still stands. As an outfielder, he joined a Yankee club that had no ballpark and had never won a pennant; his presence (backed up by the formidable figure of Lou Gehrig) turned...
...stands when the strapping (6 ft. 5 in., 210 Ibs.) Portland, Me., fastballer pitched Cheverus Classical High School to a 2-1 victory over Portland High earlier this year. Like fond relations, they were on hand with gifts for Dick's graduation last June. The Boston Red Sox presented him with a $100,000 bonus offer ($50,000 down, the rest spread over five years), and six other clubs said they were willing to raise the ante. But Dick Joyce couldn't be bought. Last week, he decided to turn down the tempting bonus offers...
...such former bonus babies as Boston's Bill Monbouquette ($4,000) and Carl Yastrzemski ($100,000). Dick's father, a onetime minor league pitcher, was alarmed by carefully planted reports that the big leagues might soon outlaw bonus payments, and urged Dick to accept the Red Sox offer. Dick refused. "If I had accepted the $100,000," he explained last week, "I would have been able to keep only about $69,000 after taxes. Scholastic and business experts estimate that today's college education is worth at least $50,000 more than a high school education...
Died. Captain May Williams, 70, a 48-year veteran of the Salvation Army, whose dismay when her son Ted took to playing Sunday baseball for a brewery gave way to pride after he became the peerless slugger of the Boston Red Sox ("The reason he is so good is that God cooperates"); of a stroke; in a Santa Barbara, Calif., nursing home...