Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cleveland, who started the second game of the Red Sox' three-game American League playoff sweep of Oakland, will be in the Boston bullpen for the first three games...
...hometown in South Carolina yesterday after work and is driving 20 hours straight to get here. All last summer we fanatically rooted for the Bosox even though we were a thousand miles from Fenway Park, but tomorrow we're going to be in the Fenway bleachers cheering our Red Sox in the World Series...
Being a Boston Red Sox fan a thousand miles from the Hub is not all that easy. It consists of trying to glean the game story out of a box score, since the typical game blurb was only a sentence or two long. It also means staying up to get the ball scores if the Sox were out West. Otherwise you'd be kept in suspense until two days later when the story would finally make the morning editions...
...Every few weeks we were rewarded with a Red Sox game on television. The bad part about watching NBC, however, was enduring the mouths of Curt Gowdy and Joe Garagiola. Ever since Gowdy began to believe that the Bosox were not going to fold in September, he has reminded the American public on the average of two or three times a broadcast how he spent fifteen years announcing Red Sox games. You couldn't escape from Garagiola on the other hand even during the commercials with everyone yelling "Attaboy, Joe" on the Dodge...
...Approximately thirty seconds after Carl Yastrzemski hit his home run in the All-Star game in July, my phone rang. Of course it was Sam. "How do you like that Yaz?" he asked. "I could have told you it would take a Red Sox to get the American League going...