Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...excited about the chances of their favorite teams making the playoffs in October. Unfortunately, at least in the American League, thing won't be too interesting. The league, which as long as I can remember has specialized in boring pennant races (with the exception of the Red Sox in '67), won't offer much excitement this year either...
...starting catching job vacated by White Sox hopeful Pete Varney is still undecided, with both Tim Bilodeau and Rich Bridich fighting for the position. In either case, Park feels that the catching will be in "very capable hands...
...Jimmy's greatest admirers was Jack Fadden, a former trainer for the Boston Red Sox who has been working with Harvard for many years. "Jimmy is one of the last of a dying breed of men who truly loved Harvard," Fadden said. "Back in the days when the Athletic Association ran the entire sports program, the administrators and the workmen all knew each other, and they were working towards a common goal, President Lowell would come down almost every day to watch the team practice. He knew all the workmen, and would often talk with them about the players...
Seven years ago Robert Woolf was an energetic young criminal lawyer working out of a cubbyhole office in Boston. Eager for business, he agreed to help Red Sox Pitcher Earl Wilson negotiate his baseball contract. A few fast deals later and Woolf suddenly realized: "Oh wow, this is an area that's been virtually untapped." Tapping away like a trip hammer ever since, he has become the most successful of the new and growing breed of sport lawyer-managers. He now has a stable of 200 pro basketball, baseball, football and hockey athletes. "I have to pinch myself...
...Field Activities. And scared a lot of owners. Two years ago, when the Red Sox traded Ken ("the Hawk") Harrelson, the American League's Player of the Year, to the Cleveland Indians, Woolf craftily advised the flamboyant outfielder to "retire," on the grounds that the move would jeopardize the Hawk's business interests in Boston. In a subsequent meeting with Commissioner Bowie Kuhn, Woolf worked out a "substantial compensation" for his client's supposed business losses. Harrelson promptly unretired. "When we went to New York," Woolf proudly explains, "the sport world didn't understand the importance...