Word: sox
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WINTERHAVEN, FLA.-When it rains, it pours, the little salt-shaking girl used to say and yesterday the Red Sox brought a torrential thunderstorm to the Royals. Salting K.C. thoroughly were five Bosox sluggers who bombed the bleachers for eight big ones while Jim Lonborg, mysterious as Boston weather, regained his '67 pitching form...
Kasko had reason to be optimistic because the Red Sox looked like a Big Red Machine that could mow down the American League this spring and even get the Oriole dynasty chirping for mercy. George Scott, in particular looked like the Babe Ruth of the '70's as he pasted the ball twice into the parking lot. Scottie had the wheelerdealers who talk of a "Frank Howard trade" tongue-tied...
...doubt the Red Sox would play the Orioles even if only six people showed up. After all, when one sells a ticket, one promises a performance. Kristofferson, the promoter said, had not cancelled. The decision was an economic one, and dubious at best...
...always there, at Confirmations and graduations and dedications of the countless schools and churches he helped build. His picture was in everyone's hallway, a fullcolor portrait cut out of the Globe when he was made a Cardinal. You took pride in his voice and his Red Sox cap and his friendship with your President because in him you had someone only Boston could produce: that blend of worldliness and sanctity, that despiser of stuffiness and lover of ritual...
...quartet, lacked any of the sense of hurt or loss that underlies Brel. Their dress, the inevitable tentative mod, their hair, just a touch of long, their manners, frightfully winning, the two looked less like Brel's sailors and soldiers and cast-off lovers, rather more like two Red Sox players in an off-season gig, or, worse yet, the male models in a Sears Roebuck catalogue. Annette Pirrone, in the smaller female role, came across as merely pleasant. As a result, all three were easily eclipsed by Denise Le Brun. A protege of Edith Piaf (the program quotes Piaf...