Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Denny Doyle's two-run, bad-hop single capped a three-run Boston rally in the sixth inning that carried the Red Sox to a 6-4 victory over the New York Yankees last night and stretched their American League East Division lead to four games over the idle Baltimore Orioles...
...triumph reduced to four the Red Sox' pennant-clinching number. Any combination of four Boston victories or Baltimore losses will insure the Red Sox of their first division title since 1967. Boston has six games remaining and Baltimore has eight left...
...money that was rolling in by the 1950s, Finley was not satisfied. "I wanted a team in the worst way," he recalls. His first four bids?for the Philadelphia Athletics, Detroit Tigers, Chicago White Sox and California Angels?were either too little or too late. In 1960 he finally bought control of the Kansas City Athletics for $2 million. It was a large price for a last-place team...
...could not bring himself to part with the A's. His resolve to keep them is stronger now because of a possible deal to move the team to Chicago next season. The American League is trying to work out a swap that would involve selling the White Sox to a Seattle syndicate, bringing the A's to Chicago and rechristening them the White Sox. Finley would like nothing better than wheeling and dealing for a hometown club. "Hell, we'd have 2 million fans come see us here," he says...
PROBABLY the only thing to do is stay on the case--buy Dodger pennants from the Souvenir shop across from Fenway Park, call the Globe sports recording at 2 a.m. to get the scores you won't find in the morning paper, and always remember, as the Sox stroke and the Dodgers choke, that baseball is as stupid game of no consequences...