Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gibson had four hits, including a pair of tape-measure homers, and drove in five runs yesterday to lead the Tigers to a 6-5 victory over the Boston Red Sox in the teams' season opener...
...Sox at Detroit...
...Dodgers' springtime bus driver in the '50s. Rising from Dodger batboy to star of the team, Garvey prepared Tampa well for its improbable position now as producer of both the most effective pitcher and the most efficient hitter in baseball: the Mets right-hander Gooden and the Boston Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs. One, the National League Cy Young Award winner by acclamation last year (24-4 record, 268 strikeouts, 1.53 earned-run average); the other, the American League batting champion by 33 points...
...round man on a cane, Dan has lost a hip to arthritis, actually to a childhood of peanut and cotton farming, compounded by adult years operating a belt in a phosphate factory. Still, something visible remains of the athlete, the first baseman who followed Uclesee to the Albany Red Sox and later coached semi-pro teams in Tampa. "My daddy carried me around like I carried Dwight around," says Dan, noting that none of the three sons from his first marriage ever embraced the game. "Oh, but it pleased me when Dwight took it up. 'Baseball, baseball,' his mother liked...
...precise opening was created by an unfavorable chance deviation. Neglecting to protect Tom Seaver, or to imagine anyone would be gauche enough to claim their venerable pitcher, the Mets lost him to the Chicago White Sox in the 1984 player-compensation pool. "Until then I wasn't even going to the big camp," Gooden says. "I came in as a non-roster player, and right up to the fourth inning of the last spring game, I was sure that I was headed to Tidewater. All of a sudden Davey walked over to where I was sitting in the dugout...