Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John McNamara, who guided the Boston Red Sox from a fifth-place finish in 1985 to within one strike of the 1986 world championship, was rewarded yesterday with the American League Manager of the Year award...
...with two to go--and my guys won both for the pennant. And, although (honest to God) I didn't want Yaz to make the last out by popping to third, I decided that Bucky Dent was the greatest living American one afternoon in early October, 1978. The Red Sox, in other words, began as my mortal enemies...
That is, until 1967, the year of the Impossible Dream, and my rookie season in the Harvard professoriat. I loved that pennant race and cheered Boston on (why not, the Yanks were out of it, and one of my New York heroes, Elston Howard, was catching for the Sox). For the first time in my life, I suffered with you through the seventh Series game--though the final result was inevitable (I mean nobody but nobody could beat Bob Gibson, not even Lonborg, especially on two days rest...
...Series from a hotel room in Salt Lake City (no beer, not even before the seventh inning), and exulted in Fisk's homer with a glee unmatched since Bobby Thomson's for the Giants in 1951. I also watched, from the same room, the next afternoon as the Sox, in the finale, took a 3-0 lead into the sixth, and then blew...
...rooted for the Sox all the way, as hard and as diligently as I ever rooted in all my life (and spurred by my son Ethan, a Sox zealot too young to remember any previous post-season play...