Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gammon's first book, Beyond the Sixth Game, the deluge of facts and choppy prose combine with a minimum of narrative flow that wears on even the most partisan of Red Sox fans. What works so effectively in a newspaper column does not please when extended over nearly three hundred pages...
Gammons argues that the complexion of major league baseball has changed profoundly since the sixth game of the 1975 World Series. In that contest between the Cincinnati Reds and the Red Sox, a game that is now consistently recalled as among the most exciting ever played, the Sox defeated the Reds when catcher Carlton Fisk hit a twelfth inning home run just inside the left field foul pole. The Reds won the series the next day in less dramatic fashion, and just a few weeks later the free agent was born, changing baseball forever...
First the Red Sox score comes on. No problem...
Rice Gedman had four hits and the Boston Red Sox scored seven runs after a pair of New York errors in the second inning yesterday in rolling to a 14-5 victory over the Yankees...
Wade Boggs and Tony Arms drove in three runs apiece as the Red Sox, who beat the Yankees 9-2 in the season opener Monday, made...