Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parking lot was full 90 minutes before the first pitch. Thousands of fans swarmed the stands, proudly wearing their Red Sox caps. Jim Rice held forth in left field. Roger Clemens blasted his 90 mile-an-hour fastball past hopelessly overmatched White Sox hitters...
Sarasota's Payne Park, winter home of the Chicago White Sox, seats just over 5000 baseball-starved fans. The overflow crowds drink beer and watch the contest from the roofs of their mobile homes beyond the outfield wall...
Spring baseball is a tradition in Sarasota, a retirement community of 51,000 people. Before the Red Sox moved to Winter Haven over two decades ago, the team used to train at Payne. At least one long-time Payne usher--who served as a batboy for Ted Williams--remains loyal, however. "I've always been a [Red] Sox fan, and I always will be," he says with a sense of finality...
...Coca-Cola and, especially, beer. The beer in Sarasota may be no better than beer anywhere else, but it is served in a unique fashion--by an operatic vendor. "Be the first to quench your thirst!" sings the salesman. "C'mon, you can strike out," he serenades the Red Sox. No one can recall the last singing vendor at Fenway...
...elderly man from Boston comes to Florida just to see the Red Sox, but never goes to Fenway. "The crowds are disgraceful there," he moans. "All the cussing and rowdyism. You wouldn't want to take your wife or girlfriend there...