Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sox 9, Milwaukee...
...deal, I though. That was the year the Red Sox dropped their first ten games and Jose Santiago was launched into that nameless baseball obscurity, on the fringe of memory, tossed in the stacks of bubble gum card limbo with Pumpsy Green and Jose Tartibull. Only a die-hard, hungry Boston carnivore like me, a Red Sox fan since childhood, would remember these names--these extinguished hopes of the past...
...there is nothing potentially more explosive than teasing a fatalistic Red Sox fan--a hungry breed of sports fan, a bug-eyed baseball lunatic who in the summer months follows every pitch and grabs for every grain of hope with the tacit, suppressed knowledge in the back of his mind that around August, no matter how many home runs Jim Rice hits, or how awesome Yaz is out there in left--the cold hand of fate will sweep down from New York or Baltimore or Detroit and topple all the dominos...
Spaceman and I were sitting under the intense heat, bombarded by devouring mass-media madness thrown up for TV cameras by worshipping little boys and the old timers ready to follow the Red Sox off of the earth for a pennant because they are tired of losing...
...their opening game, the Tea Men pleased a crowd of over 11,000 at Schaffer Stadium in Foxboro, Mass., their home field, despite a televised Red Sox game and John Havlicek's final appearance with the Boston Celtics...