Word: yawkey
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tend to get scholarships to college; and when the game is so desperate the arduous season and low prestige of baseball makes it less attractive. Many say that the Sox have a more or less deliberate anti-black policy anyways: they point to plantation-owning owner Tom Yawkey, "Massa Tom," who is a very old and wildly wealthy man ("management and control of mines, mineral interests, timber lands, lumber and paper mills...") who doesn't hesitate to spend his riches in pursuit of a pennant. He seldom gets this pennant, and some claim that a decidedly loaded sense of priorities...
Beantown's Bosox baseball buffs had to sit at home another day before making the pilgrimage to Tom Yawkey's cozy corner of Kenmore Sq. as snow, sleet and rain postponed the Red Sox home opener against Baltimore...
Until Rico and Pudge are ready, however, Terry Hughes should take the hot corner and Bob Montgomery will squat behind home plate. All told, that makes for quite a different line up from what the fans usually expect to take the field in Yawkey's "country club...