Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Halley's Comet? The Head of the Charles? A Red Sox World Series Championship...
...Pittsburgh, Ueberroth has been straining under what he termed a "great demand to do something Landis-like." Maybe to reassure the players of his sympathy, maybe to indicate that it has limits, he found a temperate quote from baseball's original commissioner, whose swift justice expelled the 1919 "Black Sox" fixers. "I want every player to feel I stand behind him," Judge Landis had asserted, and here Ueberroth's voice acquired an edge, "so long as he is on the square." He has suspended only the matter of punishment "for the time being...
...deal was sealed on the telephone. Greg Larson, who is based in Jacksonville, learned that the Utica Blue Sox team , in the Class A New York- Penn League, was for sale for $70,000. The seller required a swift decision. Larson called his colleague, Bob Fowler, in Orlando. Fowler said, "Hell yes, we'll buy it." Today Fowler recollects, "In ten minutes, overcome by the adventure, we had done...
...past two seasons, the Blue Sox had been an independent club. This meant it had to contract for, supply and pay much of its own talent. Independents cannot go after a player until the last major-league farm system has had its pick, meaning the Blue Sox would be free to go after anybody no one else wanted. In 1983 Roger Kahn, who wrote The Boys of Summer, ran the Blue Sox through a pennant and right into a lyrical new book, Good Enough to Dream, released this summer. The title was a characterization of his team. But now Kahn...
...quotes Shakespeare and Wordsworth, dabbles in gourmet cooking and drives a 20-year-old Mustang. Unfortunately, straitlaced Star Robert Urich seems more at home with TV dinners and spy novels, and the pace of the two-hour pilot is plodding. This show seems as dead as the Red Sox's pennant hopes...