Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Well, this afternoon. I'll be meeting my friends as the Red Sox open at Fenway. It's a ritual I've performed since 1977, when I first moved to the Boston area and the Red Sox replaced my seventh-grade idols, the Oakland...
Year after year, I would count down the days until baseball returned. On that fateful day, skipping school, I would stand in line for bleacher tickets. On the trolley, everyone seemed to be wearing a Red Sox cap, carrying a radio and talking baseball...
Before the Red Sox began selling bleacher tickets in advance, standing in line was almost as much an event as the actual game. In '77 my sister and I were nearly trampled to death by an obese Cleveland man and his wife, as we waited for over three hours in a line that extended to Kenmore Square...
Sandwiched around the win over the Sox and Eddie Popowski, the Crimson dropped two decisions to the minor-leaguers. On Thursday, the Red Sox bombed the Crimson hurlers for 10 runs and Harvard's lone tally came on a Vinnie Martelli homer. Saturday, in a game played at Chain O'Lakes Park--where the Red Sox' parent club plays its home spring training games--the Red Sox prospects prevailed, 8-4, despite a long home run by normally light-hitting Harvard second baseman Gaylord Lyman...
...their only other outings, the batsmen fell to the White Sox farm team squad, 7-6, in 10 innings, and to the Pirates' minor leaguers...