Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...might say other teams in other sports have suffered similar fates. Look, you might say, at the Boston Red Sox. They have come close so many times to a World Series championship. But they haven't won one since 1918. The Cleveland Browns have not suffered as much as the Red Sox, you might say. So stop complaining...
Forgive me if I'm wrong, but I detect an element of masochism in Boston baseball fans. Baseball-minded Bostonians, I think, take a certain pleasure in watching their team lose. They feed on heartbreak. The Red Sox are an annual Greek tragedy. Rise, fall and catharsis...
...Sox are Greek heroes, the Browns are a bunch of Willy Lomans, riding on a smile and a shoeshine. Nothing would be more uplifting to the city of Cleveland, a lunch-pail town with a drab reputation, than a Browns championship. But the Browns' work-a-day efforts have been thwarted the last two years. And now, after Sunday's loss, they seem destined to fall from the heights of disappointment into the morass of mediocrity...
...should take lessons from people in professional baseball and football. Mediocrity in these sports are not being rewarded. The Chicago White Sox are ready to bolt for St. Petersburg or any other town that will promise on a stack of Roger Angel's The Summer Game to fill the stadium. The St. Louis Cardinals were so bad that the city finally gave up on them. Their move to Phoenix brought no tears. Now, with the marriage of the Cardinals and Phoenix not yet a year old, fans are getting the let's-end-this itch. Phoenix Cardinal ticket prices...
...YORK--Twelve players, including Jim Clancy and Ernie Whitt of Toronto, Doyle Alexander of the Detroit Tigers, and Rich Gedman of the Boston Red Sox were declared free agents today by arbitrator George Nicolau because of collusion by baseball owners after the 1986 season...