Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...word "we." And I do so with pleasure. Frankly, I'm not sure why the home team means so much to me. After four years in Boston I'll still check the wire services' one inch story about the Phils before I'll even glance at a Sox score. At Fenway one eye is always fixed on the National League scoreboard. The attachment is probably a part of growing up. For instance, when you are younger you don't figure that the Phils are just a bunch of pros with no particular allegiance to their home town...
While most New Englanders played the part of sunshine soldiers (the October variety and basked in the success of the Patriots last Sunday, nearly 20,000 Red Sox faithful scattered themselves about sunbathed Fenway Park to watch the Sox defeat Baltimore and close their long, painful 1976 season...
...game days, the atmosphere is electric for blocks around the park. The dirty Back Bay sidewalks are dappled with souvenir stands boasting the Sox' bright red and navy colors. The shrill cries of peanut and hot dog vendors fill the air. Amidst this street carnival, the fans dodge the traffic and each other as they converge on Fenway, swarming past the hawkers, the tall red brick facade and through the turnstiles...
...contest, the Red Sox were trailing 12-5 with two out in the bottom of the ninth. The handful of stragglers who had been wise enough (foolish enough?) to remain saw the Sox score eight runs and pull out a miraculous 13-12 victory...
With a good advance ticket sale, based on a long forgotten idea the Red Sox would be gunning for the Eastern Division championship, the team hopes to go over the 1.9 million home attendance mark by Sunday...