Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real history of the Boston Red Sox opens with a quotation from the great symbolist himself, William Francis Lee III, now the National League's lefty of the year. There is no man who contains, within himself, all of the triumphs, idiosyncrasies, frustrations and foibles, who can show you, in the final column, that the Red Sox have always been a team of heroes and fools...
...Shore, Dutch Leonard, Duffy Lewis, Cecil Cooper, the heroes whose promise was traded for cash or mediocrity. Back, further into the piles of faded photographs and daguerreotypes of old-looking men in baggy, dusty uniforms, there's Lou Boudreau, Luis Aparicio, Orlando Cepeda, Ellston Howard, the heroes that Red Sox management fielded in the waning years of their lives. The Picture History of the Boston Red Sox has all the pictures, and the folksie, barstool chatter extracts the Bostonese from personages like: Buck O'Brien, Smokey Joe Wood, Sad Sam Jones, Jumping Joe Dugan, and Yaz, to name...
...Yawkey is as central a figure in the history of the Sox as any of the players in the book; he is shown cajoling with Ted Williams, Reggie Smith, and everyone loved him. After he bought the franchise in 1933, Yawkey renovated Fenway Park and became the constant in Red Sox lore, and surrounding him has been heartbreak, hope and craziness, good...
...about 6,000 other folks touched by the spirit of Camelot during the reign of J.F.K. With so many luminaries expected, an invitation to Saturday's dedication of the John F. Kennedy Library has become the hottest ticket in Boston since the 1978 playoff between the Red Sox and the Yankees in Fenway Park. The present President, Jimmy Carter, was invited, but ex-Presidents Gerald Ford and Richard Nixon were not. That was the decision of the Kennedy sisters-Eunice Shriver, Patricia Lawford and Jean Smith; they outvoted Brother Ted, who did not favor the public snub...
...Olivo for Boyer; 87. Singleton, Mike Jorgensen, and Tim Foli to Expos for Rusty Staub; 88. Singleton, and Mike Torrez for Dave McNally, Rich Coggins and Bill Kirkpatrick; 89. Bonds to Yankees for Bobby Murcer; to Angels for Mickey Rivers and Ed Figueroa; went to the White Sox with Thad Bosley and Dick Dotson for Chris Knapp, Dave Frost and Brian Downing; traded to Texas for Claudell Washington and Rusty Torres; went to Cleveland with Len Barker for Jim Kern and Larvell Blanks; 90. Harvey Kuenn sent to Cleveland for Rocky Colavito, who went to Detroit; 91. Dartmouth; 92. Columbia...