Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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John McNamara was last seen leaving Fenway Park in Boston in July 1987 but he had really gone away back in October 1986. His team, the Boston Red Sox, was one strike away from winning the World Series for the first time since World War I. Then a lot of stuff happened that isn't fit to print in a Boston-area, family newspaper, and Johnny Mac was gone...
...experience with this sort of thing. Back in 1979, I was hired to find Don Zimmer, the Sox manager who was ostracized for the '78 fiasco. But it took me 11 years to find him this year in Chicago, where he is now a cult hero...
...every baseball game today. The Cubs, we all knew, never really had a shot at the pennant this year--not because Clark or Kevin Mitchell overwhelmed the young team. No, Don Zimmer was simply leading his team to its tragic, but, alas, inevitable fate. And in 1986, the Red Sox were just fulfilling their destiny. Bill Buckner isn't to blame; he fell victim to Boston's most powerful force--THE JINX...
...baseball's past was grander, it is only because we don't remember it. Babe Ruth was traded. The Black Sox scandal was not fiction. And the Red Sox and Cubs have come closer to championships than a lot of other teams...
...this year," the Oakland fan said. "Last year, we were the best team in baseball. Jose Canseco was more than the MVP. He was the king, czar, whatever. Dennis Eckersley could have put out those Yellowstone fires by himself. We just huffed and puffed and blew the Red Sox out of the playoffs...