Word: sox
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eighth inning with one out and the Sox behind 4 to 2, Ted lined a perfect fast ball over the right field bullpen...
...year-old Red Sox slugger, who had previously expected to finish the season on the road with the Boston team, decided after the game to call it quits with his fitting round-tripper. "I'm convinced I've quit at the right time," Williams told the Associated Press in the dressing room...
...used bats weighing 48 oz. But styles have changed, and players now prefer lighter bats that they can swing more quickly. The Cubs' Ernie Banks uses a 31-oz. bat; the Giants' Willie Mays never goes heavier than 33 oz. The shape has changed too. Only White Sox Second Baseman Nellie Fox still uses a thickhandled bat; the rest prefer a slim handle. H. & B. keeps an index of the types of bat it has made for some 40,000 major league players (many of whom have Louisville Sluggers named after them), often gets wires from players...
...sent an unsuspecting umpire to the hospital with a stray fastball that popped him flush on the mask, knocked him 18 ft., chest pad over whisk broom. At Aberdeen, S. Dak., in 1958, Dalkowski pitched a one-hitter and lost, 9 to 8. Against Reno's Silver Sox this summer, he whiffed 19, still lost...
Aside from the Pops, the Red Sox, and the frigate Constitution, Boston has brought forth many little rooms where you can buy very expensive coffees to the music of Hindemith and Mozart, a god-domed State Capital, Public Gardens (watery home of the famed Swanboats), and as intricate a political machine as you will ever find...