Word: sox
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When the memories burrow back, fumbling for a lost face or fact, the saving phrase is "You could ask Tommy." Tommy McCarthy is the unofficial connection with the Red Sox organization for the Old Boys of Spring. Tommy has been hustling around Fenway Park for 50 years, come this summer, since he began working the concessions as a 16-year-old. For 42 years he has been on the Red Sox payroll. This is his 38th spring training...
Tommy's domain at Winter Haven is the kitchen in the clubhouse, just off the pressroom. His title is press steward. He recalls in loving detail when the Red Sox train, with reporters and maybe 40 Old Boys aboard, would leave Boston's Back Bay Station in the years after World War II. Tommy was not allowed to serve drinks in the station. But once the train started rolling, at 8 a.m. sharp, Tommy started pouring. It was a happy crowd that stepped off into the Florida sunshine at 3 o'clock the following afternoon. Spring training...
...Harvard baseball team won just two of nine games during its vacation journey to Florida, but the second of those victories--6-4 in 10 innings over the Red Sox farm team in Winter Haven--made the whole trip worth-while...
First, the win was the 1800th in the Crimson's 115-year history. And second, the Harvard victory marked the first time any college team had beaten a Red Sox minor league squad coached by Eddie Popowski...
Reliever Mike Smerczynski picked up the win over the Red Sox, after starter Bill Doyle kept Harvard in the game over the first seven innings...