Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...course, an outrage, even a form of cultural terrorism. Yale University President A. Bartlett Giamatti, a Boston Red Sox fanatic, wrote thunderously on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times that the strike was "an act of defiance against the American people ... I appeal for it to cease. I do so as an American citizen." Those of Giamatti's countrymen who love baseball found themselves massively unedified by the collision of venalities that brought on the strike. Despite the sympathy the players may have attracted (they are correct in arguing that the owners are now simply trying...
...still too early in the strike to attract many fans from the majors. Newspapers filled their sports pages with accounts of memorable games from the past. The Chicago Tribune took fans back to the days when the Cubs were fighting for their last pennant (1945) and the White Sox for theirs (1959). Or else the papers had fun concocting elaborate fantasies. The San Francisco Examiner invented a staff writer named "Grant Wheat" (tip of the cap there to the late Grantland Rice) who proclaimed the strike settled on Tuesday and then proceeded to march the teams through a schedule full...
...Cardinals. On opening night freshman year I couldn't hear the game, and I just sat on my bed and cried," she says. "My first night at Harvard--I hadn't even met my roommates--I dropped off my bags, and my mom and I went to a Red Sox-Tigers doubleheader. They were great games, too. I wanted to see Bernie Carbo play...
...several arrests before going to prison at 19 for a violent offense. "What would be your prognosis?" Anderson asked. Grigson said he saw only more of the same ahead. The lawyer then revealed that the case history belonged to Ron LeFlore, now a star for the Chicago White Sox. Even so, Anderson just barely succeeded. Eleven of the twelve jurors wanted to mete out the death penalty anyway...
...York's Village Voice next week, cleared $6.7 million last season after taxes, and grossed an unbelievable $28 million. Admittedly, they are baseball's most successful club, but consider that the Dodgers are aiming for an all-time attendance record of '3.6 million fans, or that White Sox executive Eddie Einhorn is close to signing a contract that would offer 140 games on cable television yearly, and you realize that, yes, salaries are high, but so are profits...