Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lights were on by the second inning, the field was soggy, and Jack Brohamer was at third, but it was opening day all the same yesterday and the Red Sox planted some hope in the hearts of their nervous followers with a 7-1 pasting of the Cleveland Indians...
...chilled opening day crowd gave Red Sox manager Don Zimmer a round of boos when he was introduced, and some of their lustiest cheers were saved for the scoreboard operator who posted the results of the Yankees-Brewers dogfight in New York: Brewers 5, Pinstripes (led by Ron Guidry...
...Sox 7, Phillies...
...even stir confidence in the team that always seems to be chasing the New York Yankees, and always just falling short. Last year's collapse, blowing a 14-game lead, was of such epic proportions that it already is part of the game's lore, but the Sox insist, perhaps too strongly, that the past is dead. In his 19th major league spring, Carl Yastrzemski looks back on the year that got away and declares: "I forgot about it a couple of hours after we got beat. Optimism is what spring training is for." And First Baseman George...
Unfortunately, the off-season may not have brought enough new things to push the Red Sox past New York. Boston's winter trades disposed of Bill Lee, resident flake and longtime starting pitcher (94 wins, 68 losses), and picked up four minor players who can, at best, be counted on as utility men. Meanwhile, the Yankees, true to then-big-spending ways, obtained two more front-line pitchers: the Dodgers' Tommy John and, unkindest cut of all, Boston's Luis Tiant. Ageless and irrepressible, Tiant was a favorite of Boston fans and a stopper for crucial games...