Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Admit it, cynical Red Sox fans: you're starting to believe...
...Sox have survived a slump and taken a six-game lead--eight in the lost column--in the American League East. With miracle finishes like Rich Gedman's pinch hit grand slam Sunday, the home team may actually have regained the blessings of the baseball gods who deserted it so many years ago when it traded Babe Ruth to the Yankees, ending the first dynasty of baseball Boston...
Since 1918, the last time the Red Sox won the World Series, the hearts of Boston's long-suffering throng have been torn asunder by the team's uncanny ability--especially in recent years--to lose, no matter how good the chances of winning seem. Years like 1946, 1949, 1972, 1974, and 1978 proved that the Sox are a team of destiny--but crown back home...
This will not do. Horowitz wears tails, Roger Clemens a Red Sox uniform, and thriller writers, according to tradition, are caparisoned in creased outerwear, lurking beside bridge abutments in the fog. Archer is radiant and fogproof. With a lesser talent, this miscalculation could have been fatal. After all, when one of Eric Ambler's down-at-the-heels protagonists makes a dodgy border crossing, the tension is palpable. Readers know that if the policeman in the greasy uniform were a shade more intelligent, he would realize that the hero's accent is bogus, his passport fake. An author who sees...
...Rangers somehow do make it to the World Series instead of the Red Sox, my revenge would be ruined...