Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This was not entirely a normal Monday eveningfor a candidates' debate. Every pool cameramanwore a Walkman, and League of Women VotersPresident Susan Scherr donned a BoSox cap beforeintroducing the candidates, commenting that "weare delighted to have the Red Sox in the Series,and we know that all the players wish they werewatching us." She also levied dire threats againstthe bearers of miniature television sets...
...aware that the local professional baseball club, the so-called "Red Sox," is at this moment engaged in a struggle with a squad from the City of New York, the "Mets," for the championship of their baseball league. Beyond trying to decipher the meaning of this arcane terminology, there are substantive sociological considerations I would like to investigate...
Harvard Yard might be the only place in the Boston area where New Yorkers could safely celebrate the Mets 10th inning, do-or-die victory over the Red Sox in the sixth game of the World Series. Safely ensconsed inside the University gates, a crowd of Yardlings sang in triumph after a Bill Buckner error allowed the Mets a come-from-behind victory...
Singing Frank Sinatra's "New York, New York" and the Mets theme song, "Meet the Mets," the group competed with a bevy of Sox fans who chanted "Oil Can, Oil Can," is the nickname of Dennis Boyd--the scheduled Sox starter in the seventh and deciding World Series game...
...year is just an instant in baseball, but an inning is a long time ago, and before anyone could finish gulping or sighing, the World Series was on. If the New York Mets and Boston Red Sox take most of this week to realize where they are, it is because playoffs can hang in the air as improbably as homers off the bat of Lenny Dykstra or the glove of Dave Henderson, and neither the National nor American leagues had ever seen such playoffs...