Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Defining Oakland as the team that beat the Red Sox would be a trifle meager. After a 104-wins season, the A's squashed Boston in four straight and spun even Wade Boggs when they felt like it. It would please them to be likened to those pitching-heavy A's teams that strung triple titles in the '70s, though they are commonly thought of, and occasionally even think of themselves, in terms of a single Bunyanesque figure in rightfield. After Oakland scored ten runs against the Red Sox in Game 3, first baseman Mark McGwire added for shuddering emphasis...
...teammates, "They're all pretty calm that way, studied, directed, prepared -- they're real prepared." His obvious reference is to Tony La Russa, 44, a thoughtful manager whose unusual breadth has never required him to let out his pants. Over eight seasons with the Chicago White Sox and three in Oakland, La Russa has grown increasingly sensitive to the nagging charge of being an attorney-at-law. Branch Rickey and Miller Huggins were good baseball men and members of the bar, but the A's skipper has had trouble finding comfortable acceptance among his tobacco-splattered peers...
...bottom of the first, no score. Here's Canseco, who homered off Hurst in Game 1. The left-hander sets and deals. Canseco swings and it's hit deep to center, way back . . . Home run, Jose ("Can You See") Canseco! A's lead the Sox...
...Check out Jimmy Freeman, a reliever for the Clayton Valley (Calif.) Cubs. Jimmy, 12, was cool as he took the mike last week for the ninth inning of the final play-off game between the A's and the Red Sox. "And he walked him," said Jimmy as relief ace Dennis Eckersley delivered ball four to Spike Owen. But the Eck got out of the jam when he popped up Jody Reed, and suddenly Jimmy dropped all objectivity. "The game is over!" he shouted. "The A's have won the pennant! Dad, you owe me five bucks...
...seventh inning, and the bleacher creatures join in paying homage to Sox ace reliever Lee Smith. They bow as Smith saunters confidently from the dugout to the bullpen. Chants of "Lee, Lee" ring through the air as the 6-ft., 6-in. demi-god, hardly acknowledging the adulation and screaming of his worshippers, strolls...