Word: sox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sports fanatic, wherein the editor of The American Scholar says there is no sense in which one loves sports through motives of slumming--you know, identifying with the workers' leisure time pursuits--vicarious violence, metaphysical truths, or returns to adolescence. Some of us are maniacs about the Chicago White Sox, Cincinnati Bengals or the St. Louis Cardinals of 1967 because these blessed people, athletes, don't allow for bullshit: the participant is viewed by a full stadium and the people in their living rooms, he either comes through with men on base or he doesn't, either makes the necessary...
...Sox assumed that a deal was set to sell Blue to the weak Detroit Tigers or, that failing, perhaps to the Minnesota Twins. When word leaked of Boston's purchase, in stepped an even higher roller than Yawkey, Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner. Finley jacked Blue's price to $1.5 million, which did not faze the Yankees. At 8 p.m. they bought Blue, and then in the waning minutes before midnight made a nine-player trade with the dispirited Baltimore Orioles to get yet another unsigned ex-Oakland pitching star, troublesome Ken Holtzman...
Finley said he had been forced to sell because of "astronomical and unjustified" player salary demands. Angry fellow owners called it "a terrible thing," "a dark day." White Sox Owner Bill Veeck's telling summary: "It destroys the illusion ... that this is a game for the fans." The fans knew it, too, even in Boston and New York. Of the first 20 calls to a Boston sports talk show, not one defended the Sox deal. New York Times Columnist Dave Anderson wrote: "A sense of embarrassment dominates what the Yankees...
...aren't going to make any money going to the Red Sox, unless you sit in the grandstand with the professional gamblers and bet whether the next pitch to Ben Oglivie on a one-and-one count with two out and nobody on in the sixth will be a ball or a strike. But you might if you pick up on the dog races at Wonderland, which go on every summer night of the week except Sunday. Getting there is easy: take the red line from Harvard Square to Park, and then the blue line from Park to the last...
Game time is 7:30 for night games and 2:15 for afternoon starts--get there early for parking and seating reasons, because despite the Red Sox's unbelievable fold so far this year the fans still come out, if only to boo. Ordinarily the American League champion Sox attract the most fanatical and fickle supporters, the bleachers especially, since the most lonely and desperate rooters, as well as true believing young, hang out there. Check out the deformed solitary scribblers with their scorebooks in the right field stands...