Word: yaz
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...young Director Ace Tyro has toiled for three years to complete his widescreen, R-rated indictment of major league baseball, All That Yaz. Its original running time: 135 minutes. But Tyro decides to cut five minutes for the premiere, and another five minutes after the first week of its release. He adds 20 minutes for the European version. For airplane showings the movie is softened to get a PG rating and cut to two hours flat; the airline projectors can hold only that much film...
...title in the A.L. East, allow the despised Yankees to catch up with them down the stretch, forcing a dramatic one-game playoff. In a contest laced with unexpected twists--including a home run by Bucky Dent which turned the tide--the Sox fall, 5-4, as Yaz pops out in the bottom of the ninth with the potential tying run on third base...
...seems, have been stranded on third for many years now. But no matter where you come from, it's impossible to dislike a team which fields Yaz, Perez, Lynn, Fisk, the incomparable Jim Rice, Rick Burleson, Butch Hobson, Jerry Remy and rifle-armed Dewey Evans, currently mired in a batting slump. And Fenway Park has a life of its own--like the hotel in Stanley Kubrick's latest flick, it "shines." Small enough to afford a good view of the action from any seat in the house. Fenway has a communal quality all too uncommon in these days of prefab...
...Otto Velez goes on a tear before Memorial Day, he has a chance to capture the Triple Crown, something no batter has won since Yaz...