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Died. Thomas Austin Yawkey, 73, benevolently paternalistic owner of the Boston Red Sox; of leukemia; in Boston. Yawkey, heir to a timber and mining fortune, bought the moribund Sox in 1933 and over the years spent lavishly to acquire such top players as Joe Cronin, Jimmy Foxx, Ted Williams, Carl Yastrzemski and most recently Oakland's Joe Rudi and Rollie Fingers (the sale of their contracts was nullified by Baseball Commissioner Bowie Kuhn). So generously treated that they were nicknamed the Gold Sox, the team never won a World Series for Yawkey but did take three American League pennants...
...blatant effort to buy the Red Sox a World Championship, and one not without pathos. For 43 years the team's benevolent millionaire owner, Thomas Yawkey, 73, had spent lavishly−and unsuccessfully−to bring Boston a World Series winner. The closest he came was last year when his underdog Red Sox lost to Cincinnati in the ninth inning of a seven-game Series. Now Yawkey is seriously...
...Connell decided, without even informing Yawkey of the details, that considering the circumstances Fingers and Rudi were worth $2 million. The pair would seem to ensure that the Red Sox at least would win the American League's East Division, where a slow start had them six games behind the team that has tormented them for decades, the New York Yankees. When the sale was announced early Tuesday evening, Boston Manager Darrell Johnson said: "We'll show them something in Yankee Stadium." He spoke too soon...
...assumed that a deal was set to sell Blue to the weak Detroit Tigers or, that failing, perhaps to the Minnesota Twins. When word leaked of Boston's purchase, in stepped an even higher roller than Yawkey, Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner. Finley jacked Blue's price to $1.5 million, which did not faze the Yankees. At 8 p.m. they bought Blue, and then in the waning minutes before midnight made a nine-player trade with the dispirited Baltimore Orioles to get yet another unsigned ex-Oakland pitching star, troublesome Ken Holtzman...
Boston Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and treasurer John Harrington met with attorney Bob Woolf in Boston yesterday to iron out a contract between the club and right-hander Luis Tiant...