Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hardy. The hero of Phil Alden Robinson's Field of Dreams is a farmer (Kevin Costner) who dreams of bringing Shoeless Joe Jackson back to earth for one more game. The great outfielder may have helped throw the 1919 World Series, but the farmer idolizes him and his Black Sox teammates for their innocence! So with the help of his trusting wife (Amy Madigan) and a crusty black author (James Earl Jones) who doesn't mind that all the old major-leaguers were white, he plows down his cornfield to erect a ball park and populate it with phantoms...
...Wade Boggs will hit a home run in the bottom of the ninth with two men on and the Red Sox down two runs...
...weather seemed more appropriate for football. The Red Sox were limping home from a 1-4 road trip. Yet somehow the sun managed to light a fire under the Red Sox and their fans...
Bill Cleary, coach of the NCAA champion Harvard hockey team, is nursing a sore shoulder and his toss from the Fenway mound bounced a few feet shy of Sox catcher Rich Gedman...
...wasn't so much the blue boxer shorts with Red Sox logos or the red knee stockings the 62-year-old Cullen was wearing that attracted attention. It was the beachball hat stuffed and sewn together like a baseball by his wife that drew stares...