Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With some tawdry bunting plastered on the mezzanine but only one successful bunt laid down in the diamond, the Boston Red Sox inaugurated their home campaign Thursday with an exciting, 7-6, loss to their top rival in the American League East, the Baltimore Orioles...
...gloves in the Sox defense played flawlessly but not brilliantly. Terry Hughes scratched the same dust as Brooks Robinson at third and went one-for-five. Hughes made no errors and before each pitch waggled his butt in the air, but Robinson looked like a long-legged goose searching vainly for its eggs when he let Tommy Harper lash one between his pins in the second inning, to give the Bosox a 2-0 lead...
Ruth began as a pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in 1914. In two years, he became the best pitcher in the majors, posting a 23-12 record, but after two more years, he switched to outfield to get more chances to bat. Ruth enjoyed pitching, and, indeed, once said his greatest thrill in baseball was the 29 2/3 scoreless innings he pitched in the World Series for the Bosox. His second greatest thrill, however, was the 587-ft. home run he hit in Tampa in the spring of 1919, and that symbolized the beginning of his years of batting...
...January of 1920, Boston made the most celebrated sale in the history of baseball when they gave Ruth to the New York Yankees for the then-astronomical sum of $100,000 and a loan of $300,000 to help faltering Red Sox club owner Harry Frazee...
...Fenway faithful will get a first live peek at the 1974 "New Look" Red Sox this afternoon. Assuming, of course, that yesterday's nor' easter doesn't decide to hang around another day. Over 30,000 are expected to be on hand to hear Rene Rancourt of the Boston Conservatory of Music deliver the National Anthem for the flag-raising...