Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Blunt Bill Veeck told me how things are, during a layover in Chicago. Richie Zisk, an unsigned White Sox, hit two home runs in an important game, and I remarked that with each homer, Zisk was getting more expensive...
...agony of the minor leagues, letting the sweat trickle down your back in a near-empty stadium in western Massachusetts, struggling to keep your head down on the ground balls as the fourth inning oozes imperceptibly into the eighth, while meantime all the fans are home watching the Red Sox on the tube. It is the memories of having to play in the shadowy Negro Leagues, jousting with the equals of Ruth and Cobb, and then packing your clothes in a cardboard suitcase and hitching to the next fleabag hotel for tomorrow's exhibition with the Black Barons. Finally, baseball...
...Sox will be back in town this weekend after their longest road trip of the year. This weekend, starting tonight, the Sox take on the Baltimore Orioles, a team that has yet to beat the Beantowners this year. Tonight's game starts at 7:30 p.m. and the Saturday and Sunday contests begin at 2 p.m. Your best bet is to shell out two bucks and sit in the bleachers. These seats are not very far from the playing field and you can scream all you want because everyone else will be equally rowdy...
...Independence Day, the Sox will be taking on the Toronto Blue Jays. This will be the first ime the Canadian club has ever appeared in Boston. It's also the first time that any Canadian team, other than hockey teams, has made its way into Boston. The Monday encounter will start...
...Bill Campbell came on for Bob Stanley in the bottom of the ninth and after a few near-miss pitches and an intentional walk to Chambliss, had loaded the bases for Paul Blair to play hero. Blair singled over a drawn-in Butch Hobson and Yanks had reciprocated the Sox three-game sweep of a week ago. Let the dogfight resume, nobody is going to win the 'East easy...