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This is the second in a series of articles about the 1981 Boston Red Sox...
...also buy the ads. You are Pat Sorrento, the shop man who tells us stories of "the good old days." You are David Rockefeller '36 and Caspar W. Weinberger '38 and Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 and John F. Kennedy '40 and David L. Halberstam '55 and Bill Lee (Red Sox pitcher, honorary) and David Riesman '31 and F.A.O. Schwartz...
...pair of young hurlers with smatterings of big league experience will get a look. Lefty Bruce Hurst was spotty in his stint with the Sox last summer (2-2, 9.10, one run-in with Don Zimmer) but is rated as a definite prospect by the organization. Righty Jim Dorsey, acquired in the trade that sent Frod Lynn to California, went 14-7 with Salt Lake City (AAA) last season, and came up to the Angels in September...
Luis Aponte, a 26-year old survivor of the ill-fated Inter-American League, is a short reliever, which is good, and a righthander, which may be bad. He pitched fairly well in limited action with the Red Sox last year, and plenty of people seem impressed ("If anyone is standing out right now it's Crawford and Aponte."--Gary Allenson). Still, with Drago, Campbell and perhaps Lockwood, is there really room for another righthander in the bullpen...
Obviously, a great deal is riding on the young arms. If Tanana's arm isn't better, if Campbell cana't make the comeback, if Rainey isn't the same and if Torrez confinues his inadequacy, the Sox will need plenty of work from the kids to go anywhere...