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Luis came to Boston after a distinguished career with the White Sox and Orioles, and his monopolization of the American League shortstop All-Star honors lasted through three decades. At thirty-eight years of age, he arrived in Boston with a broken leg after his finest season at the plate, a sparking .312 with Chicago...
...expertise in hitting to right field and capacity for handling the double-play were certain to be assets for the new defense-minded Bosox. And a magnificant asset he was, the key to the starcrossed pennant drive which took millions of hard-core Sox fans down to the replay of the Polk Country series, only this time for all the marbles. He had survived not only the broken leg, but a broken finger and an 0 for 47 batting slump last year, and as he took the field in Tiger Stadium on Monday night, the opportunity was there...
Early this season, without him, the Sox had foundered in the second division. With his return, Yas and Rico and Reggie started to hit and Baltimore was overtaken with two weeks left. It the flag was to be Boston"s it would be Luis...
Mickey Lolich struck out 15 batters while Aurelio Rodriguez drove in three runs with a homer and a pair of singles as the Detroit Tigers trimmed the Boston Red Sox 4-1 Monday night in the opener of a three-game series that will determine baseball's American League East champion...
Boston scored its run in the third, but the Red Sox were deprived of a bigger inning when Luis--Aparicio tell down rounding third base Iommy Harper had singled and taken third on Aparicio single, before scoring on a 420-foot double by Carl Yastrzemski