Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other area sports news, the Red Sox took yesterday off in preparation for the final series of a disappointing season, a three-game set which starts tonight against the Baltimore Orioles. Manager Don Zimmer has tabbed Rick Wise (13-11), Reggie Cleveland (9-9), and the ageless Luis Tiant (21-12) for the last three starts of the year...
...professional side, the Red Sox and Patriots will both be in town, one to finish off a dismal year while the other tries to continue an amazing string of successes...
...disappointing Red Sox close out the season with a series against the second-place Baltimore Orioles. The Sox have only the .500 mark to shoot for against the visitors, in a series that promised to be a pennant-deciding affair a few months...
This time he focuses on the street-level cops in pursuit of the small-time robbers. Deke Hunter, 31, is a burly plainclothes detective who would much rather be starring for the Red Sox. "Most guys," he explains, "can't hit a major-league curve. Turned out, I was one of them. Also a major-league fastball." Instead of fame and glory, Hunter has a laundry list of problems: a bad marriage and worse pay, a house full of worn-out appliances and a publicity-hound of a D.A. on his back. Worst of all, Hunter is stuck digging...
Died. Thomas Austin Yawkey, 73, benevolently paternalistic owner of the Boston Red Sox; of leukemia; in Boston. Yawkey, heir to a timber and mining fortune, bought the moribund Sox in 1933 and over the years spent lavishly to acquire such top players as Joe Cronin, Jimmy Foxx, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski and most recently Oakland's Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers (the sale of their contracts was nullified by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn). So generously treated that they were nicknamed the Gold Sox, the team never won a World Series for Yawkey but did take three American League pennants...