Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...them wore the famous electric company yellow hat, which Boston TV fans have come to know through the ads the electric companies used to run on behalf of their "Big 11 Plus" power project. These ads have since been replaced by messages from Curt Gowdy, formerly our favorite Red Sox announcer in Beantown. These generally consist of Gowdy fishing downstream from a bright, clean electric plant (showing, of course, that the power companies care about fish...
...Indians have a strong five wins-one loss record on the year, but they've yet to face strong opposition. In their last outing on Tuesday, they defeated Merrimac College (of which Red Sox star Carl Yastrzemski is an alumnus) by a score of 15-50. In that meet, junior Tom Shiland tied with teammate Chris Peisch for first in 28:02 on the 5.0 mile Hanover course...
...four pitchers for the Chicago White Sox-Claude Williams, Edward Cicotte, Urban Faber and Richard Kerr-won 20 or more games apiece. Williams and Cicotte were later implicated in what came to be known as the 1919 Black Sox scandal, which was not uncovered until after the 1920 Series...
...usual, the organist played Rhapsody in Blue, and as usual, Vida got off to a slow start by loading the bases in the first inning. He pitched his way out of that jam, found his groove, and went on to blank the Chicago White Sox 1-0. When he squeaked to No. 21 last week by defeating the Boston Red Sox 5-3 in extra innings, a near capacity crowd of 32,858 showed up in Fenway Park despite tornado alerts and a rainstorm that delayed the start of the game for two hours...
Varney, who has been drafted by the pros six times. was the first man drafted last week. The Chicago White Sox picked him. "He'll be catching in the big leagues," Harvard coach Loyal Park said. "Mark my words...