Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Detroit is at Baltimore. Cleveland is at New York. A Red Sox win and a Tiger loss puts the locals in first place for the first time all summer...
...Monday night in late September. 14,575 watch the Sox defeat Milwaukee...
...weeks remain in the baseball season. The American League East is bunched together and the Red Sox, typically, are in the thick of things trailing division-leading Detroit by just half a game...
...with the Red Sox one game back in the loss column, life goes on at Fenway Park. But the tension isn't thick, the players aren't scowling, the fans aren't as loyal. Even the Go Sox hats are going slower, and the voice of the vendor has a hollow sound...
Just think of what the next month will bring, if we're lucky. Maybe the Sox will end up in a tie for first with, say, Detroit. 1978 with a different ending--how about Dwight Evans playing Bucky Dent and winning it with a homer...