Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Buckner can't dismiss the Red Sox management that easily...
...summers ago, in 1977, my friend Sue called the hotel in Chicago where the Red Sox were staying on road trip. She asked for Butch Hobson's room. She talked to Butch Hobson. I was jealous, but never stopped to question why an 11-year-old could carry on a perfectly normal conversation with an older man she had never met, halfway across the country...
...never felt like I was imposing when I'd hang over the dugout for and autograph. After one game at Fenway about six years ago I stopped Damaso Garcia as he walked out of the parking lot. "You don't want my autograph--I'm not on the Red Sox," he said. "Yes I do," I said, "because you're Damaso Garcia, the second baseman for the Blue Jays." He smiled, and signed...
...values, these ads are often comparable to their English-language counterparts. A Spanish ad for Miller Lite carried on the beer's celebrated Tastes Great- Less Filling theme. But added to the cast were a gaggle of Latin celebrities, including former Boxing Champion Alexis Arguello and retired Boston Red Sox Pitcher Luis Tiant. Miller apparently believes that, in the Hispanic community at least, Tiant's pitch for beer can be as effective as any fastball he threw in Fenway Park...
...curious circumstance struck Tony Perez as the great Cuban hitter chatted behind Boston's batting cage. "On the entire 25-man roster," he said, "the Red Sox have one black and one Latin, and I'm the one." Someone mentioned Jim Rice. "Disabled list," said Perez. "Mike Torrez?" That made him sigh. With a gaze of pitying forbearance that is becoming a familiar look in all kinds of sports arenas, Perez explained, "A Mexican from Topeka, Kans., is not a Latin...