Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Died. Robert Moses "Lefty" Grove, 75, fireballing Hall-of-Fame pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox from 1925-41; of an apparent heart attack; in Norwalk, Ohio. With his searing fastball, Grove regularly humiliated the most feared batters of his day, including Babe Ruth, whom he held to just nine home runs in ten seasons. Grove's two-season peak of 59 wins and only nine losses in 1930-31 remains unequaled, and so, for that matter, does his sizzling temper. Lefty often loudly chewed out teammates as "hitless wonders" after close losses, or "butterfingered s.o.b.s...
...front of me said humorously, his woman companion trying mournfully to smile) the car would have more dents than Cleon Jones's wallet, and the angry man would have gone off crying, hopeless, forlorn, hanging his once-proud head in shame, like Shoeless Joe Jackson at the Black Sox trial. Why--who--how could he have left the car there, this of all days? After a while the kids started throwing rocks at passing trucks, but since it wasn't a demonstration the cops stood by benignly and only the car got hurt...
BOSTON--Bernie Carbo drove in four runs with a pair of homers and the Boston Red Sox snapped a five-game losing streak Sunday with a 4-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals...
Cecil Cooper triggered a five-run seventh inning and Catfish Hunter was foiled in a bid for his first New York victory yesterday as the Boston Red Sox rallied for an 11-7 victory over the Yankees...
...White and Thurman Munson led a 16-hit New York attack and Pat Dobson pitched a six-hitter as the Yankees battered the Boston Red Sox 12-1 yesterday in Fenway Park...