Word: yawkey
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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...
...rising enterpreneurs sought pledges of $20, and hoped to attract 900,000 buyers to meet the then $18 million asking price of the Yawkey estate. "There are a lot of fanatics around," Campbell explained, "and that is only one dollar from every man, woman and child in New England...
...time Yaz refused to greet the interlopers, but, heeding the Riot Commission Report, rebuffed them only gently. It was too late. As the Park and City police and the dwindling crowd watched in disbelief, the lawlessness, the disregard for property which has convulsed the nation at large, came to Yawkey's Yard. Perhaps a hundred grade-schoolers, led by a spindly-legged eight-year-old girl, spilled onto the field from all directions and advanced on their general like a children's crusade. Yaz backed warily against the Wall, but the worshippers rolled on. Two groundskeepers were dispatched to protect...