Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston Red Sox. Once you've been to Fenway Park, you'll know it's the only place in America to watch a ballgame. Every one of the 33,000 seats is close to the action. The Green Monster is incomparable. The Red Sox? Well, they win almost half the time...
Rooting for the Sox is a state of mind, a masochistic commitment to late-summer agony. Even so, John Cheever once surmised that all literate people are Red Sox fans. If you're not big on pain, you can still enjoy the sport for its own particular beauty, and catch one of the best hitters of our time--Wade Boggs, owner of a .346 lifetime average--in his prime...
Four major league clubs--the Dodgers, Atlanta Braves, Chicago White Sox and Houston Astros--now run permanent baseball camps in San Pedro. Says New York Mets Scouting Director Joe McIlvaine, whose staff keeps tabs on Dominican boys as young as 14: "If we get calls from San Pedro and another town there, we give the boy from San Pedro the first look." In 1984 the recruiting rules were tightened to protect young players; scouts who once signed athletic teenagers at first glance on the streets of San Pedro must now obtain proof that the boys are at least 17. Still...
...what about TV-38, the local station that carries Red Sox games. They were faced with the prospect of presenting a half a summer of The Movie Loft, featuring every lousy Bob Hope movie ever made. Thank God that the players and owners had the good sense to avert such a situation...
Until he heads east, Golen will continue his job as a vendor at Chicago White Sox and Cubs games. He says he has no fears or inhibitions about making the 1000-mile trek come September...