Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple. The Houston Astros are going to beat the Boston Red Sox in the 1986 World Series. After five years of being called the Houston Last-tros because of their poor finishes, the Astros are now contending for their second pennant...
...when they do get to the series, the Astros will be competing against one of their own. Roger Clemens the 16-2 Red Sox pitching phenom, happens to be from Katy, Texas. I guess Clemens's fine Texas breeding is wearing off on the other Red Sox players...
...Astros-Red Sox series will parallel the Rockets--Celtics series. Except the Houston team will win this time...
...Black Sox," as they came to be known, were hounded out of organized baseball and into the oblivion that the team owners believed they deserved. Even "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, a lifetime .356 hitter whom his contemporaries compared with Ty Cobb, is recalled today chiefly for the plea addressed to him by a disbelieving boy: "Say it ain't so, Joe." The conditions that impelled him and his teammates to take money from gamblers -- low pay, lack of security and a general feeling of involuntary servitude -- have long since been overturned. Free agency, binding arbitration and other Big Business behavior...
...cannot serve as a cautionary tale about today's athletes, Playwright Lawrence Kelly's vision is at least a compelling metaphor for the way decent people in all walks of life slip into dishonesty. Kelly's perception is that the Black Sox did not cheat as individuals. They did so, following the basic tenet of their sport, as a team. Money may have been the bait but loyalty and comradeship were the motives that persuaded them, some with great reluctance, to betray their talents. As Chick Gandil (Paul Christie), the sour ringleader of the scam, remarks in an aside, people...