Word: sox
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...Sox retained the rights to both Jerry Remy and Frank Tanana in yesterday's draft...
...championship since 1965. Poor Frazier, 27, who began this split, struck, schizophrenic year as a minor league property of the St. Louis Cardinals, was the losing pitcher in three of the four. The only other three-time loser in a World Series was Claude Williams of the 1919 "Black Sox." The joke was that Frazier was the first to do it unintentionally...
They say Marty Barrett is the player of the future, and that Dave Stapleton can play second base. But this kind of thing can't keep happening if a team wants to contend. The mystique is gone now, for Remy and for everyone, and if the Red Sox want players to stay they will have to come up with the money to sign them. And it is scary to think that Jim Rice and Carney Lansford do not have long-term contracts...
...unthinkable that Remy would depart for greener pastures. Last year at this time people questioned whether Fisk, a New England boy, or Lynn, a Boston institution, would leave the area if the difference was merely money. Maybe they wouldn't have, but by the time the Sox got around to negotiating, the difference was much more than money--it was a matter of pride. The same thing is happening with Remy, and so it is no longer surprising that the Cohasset native who was there when the Sox won it in '67 could very well be in Oakland this time...
...becoming increasingly difficult to remain a Red Sox fan during the winter months, the Hot Stove League season that is the purists' lifeblood. By day, the Sox are an enthralling, interesting club, with a capacity few other teams possess to come from behind with a dramatic rally. But by night they are a goblin, tormenting the soul of the fanatic who can only relive last year in sorrow for what has been lost...