Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doesn't know his brother batteries of Red Sox history-like Wes and Rick Ferrell-could end up ostracized, in public disgrace. Not to worry. True competitors, they keep track of pitching records and batting averages almost as closely as they keep track of each other's age. Problems can arise when arguments over facts give way to differences of opinion. Caterino says, "I've learned never to argue about religion, politics or Ted Williams." Friendships have severed over whether Dom DiMaggio or Jimmy Piersall was the better centerfielder. In general the guiding principle reads: older...
...Winter Haven are played not so much against the opposing team as against other games in the past. There are ghosts on the field in the middle distance. Caterino remembers seeing Walter Johnson pitch and Ty Cobb tear up the bases. He can recall when an overflow Red Sox crowd, seated in a roped-off section of centerfield, parted like the Red Sea when the graceful Tris Speaker faded back to run down a fly. Fegan saw his first Red Sox game in 1911. As the Colonel says, "When you're 82, you've been around...
...Anderson is hitting fungoes. "They've forgiven us," marvels the Detroit manager. "Baseball has to be the luckiest business in the world. Whatever we do to louse it up, we can't." Johnny Pesky is chewing tobacco. Everything Sparky says, the wrynecked coach of the Boston Red Sox endorses with a streamer and a splat. "Baseball," Sparky says, "is bigger than the people running...
...Fidrych is 27 years old and in the fifth year of his comeback. He won 19 games for Detroit in 1976 talking to the ball, but last season Mark mopped up in the minor leagues talking to himself. The Tigers finally gave up on him, and now the Red Sox are having a look. Close up, it is hard to feel too sad because he appears so happy. "As soon as I get the uniform on, I'm happy," Fidrych says. "Getting dirty, you know. Being a kid again. I love it. Oh, I'm still a free...
Lefthander Jim Curtin of Burlington will open Harvard's spring season Saturday afternoon when he faces the Chicago White Sox minor league squad in Sarasota. The following evening, the Crimson opens its intercollegiate schedule with a doubleheader against the University of South Florida in Tampa, and juniors Greg Brown and Billy Doyle will be the starters. Three freshmen pitchers, lefty Jeft Musselman and righthanders Charlie Marchese and Cecil Cox, will make the trip, along with Doyle, Curtn, Brown, and seniors Mike smercznski and John Sorich...