Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year of the "Impossible Dream" for the Boston Red Sox, led by MVP Cast Yazstremski (photo bottom right). What was Yaz's batting average that year? How many homers did he hit and how many runs did he knock...
Died. Wendell Smith, 58, sportswriter and broadcaster who helped promote baseball's racial integration; of cancer; in Chicago. Early in 1945, Smith took Jackie Robinson and two other black players to open tryouts with the Boston Red Sox. When the Red Sox demurred, Smith stopped off in Brooklyn to report the incident to the Dodgers' Branch Rickey, who sent his own scouts out for a look and hired Robinson. Later, at the Chicago American as the first full-time black sportswriter on a major daily, Smith led a successful fight to desegregate baseball housing facilities in the South...
DETROIT--Marts Pattin fired a four hitter and the Boston Red Sox deprived Detroit's Joe Coleman of a 20th victory yesterday with a 4.1 triumph over the Tigers in the regular season finals for both American League teams...
...victors left the Red Sox one half game behind the last Division champion Tigers -- who played one more game than Boston this season because of the strike-shortened schedule...
...left hit a single and dropped a ground hall, and the man on the right struck out twice with men on base, and watched as AI Kaline squeezed Ren Ogilvie's pop fly to give the Tigers the flag. But hold your heads up. You're still Our Sox...