Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...relative unknowns; a depressing and largely forgotten incident of history; and a director born in France and trained in Britain making his U.S. debut with a show about that quintessentially American subject, baseball. The result would seem foreordained to be disaster. But Out!, the story of eight Chicago White Sox players who deliberately lost the 1919 World Series for a few thousand dollars a man, is instead an off-Broadway joy. Poignant, intelligent, funny and morally alert, it shows what the theater can do far better than TV or movies in dealing with historical material: bring characters alive by letting...
...Boston, June brings the traditional end to the basketball and baseball seasons. The normal result is a Celtic triumph and a Red Sox collapse, but there are exceptions: sometimes the Celtics do not win, and every now and then the Red Sox schedule their collapse for July or even August. This year, however, in defiance of memory and common sense, Red Sox fans, those annually jilted romantics, are tempted to hope again. Here it is July, and the first- place Red Sox have not yet folded. Says Sportswriter Peter Gammons: "People are excited right now, but they don't want...
...fact, getting burned is what being a Red Sox fan is all about. Many Bostonians will go to their graves muttering about Bucky Dent's pop-fly home run, Johnny Pesky's incompetent relay or the team's primal curse: the sale of Babe Ruth to the Yankees to raise money for damn-fool Broadway shows. Still, there is grudging ground for hope in 1986. Wade Boggs, baseball's best hitter, has been flirting with .400 all year. Boston's pitching staff has the best earned-run average in the league. Rich Gedman has turned out to be a catcher...
Aside from averting the June swoon, the biggest story in Boston is the arrival, from vastly different trajectories, of two of the best pitchers ever to wear the Red Sox uniform: Roger Clemens, 23, and Tom Seaver, 41. Last week, two days after being traded from the Chicago White Sox, Seaver made his first start for Boston, labored mightily against the Blue Jays, and hung on to win, 9-7; it was his first victory since April 23. The next night Clemens pitched ( superbly against the same Jays, giving up three hits and striking out eight, but lost...
...mind locker room talk, it is very possible you will enjoy it. The proximity of the theater to Harvard Square makes it especially inviting for Summer School students, although the tickets are quite pricey ($14 Tuesday--Thursday evenings and Saturday, Sunday matinees; $17 Friday, Saturday evenings). Like the Sox pitching staff, this play is colorful and unpredictable, definitely worth a trip to the bullpen...