Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dismissal rests on the specious pretext of a new Yankee policy on retirement, but baseball fans across the country have not been taken in by it. From volatile Bill Veeck, Chicago White Sox president, to a Brooklyn tattooist to a Broadway astrologer, they have voiced their indignation at this injustice...
Massachusetts: The Boston Red Sox will win baseball's World Series before Boston's Kennedy loses Massachusetts...
...Centerfielder Mickey Mantle still has belted 40 home runs. Rightfielder Roger Maris has hit another 39. In Pittsburgh's vast Forbes Field (right-center-field wall: 425 ft.), most of the Yankees will have trouble reaching the seats. Not Mantle. Says Chicago White Sox Manager Al Lopez: "Mantle can hit the ball out of any damn park any time he goes up to the plate anywhere...
...fidgeted with his cap, the president of the Boston Chamber of Commerce presented an inscribed Paul Revere bowl to him, and Gowdy, Red Sox announcer, called the Splinter the greatest hitter in baseball--"simply a champion...
After the opening ceremonies the Red Sox announced that Number 9 would be retired--the first Boston uniform to be so honored. The day was all Ted's. Near the end of the sloppy contest, as Ted trotted in from left field to appear no more, even the skies almost cried...