Word: zimmerer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Zimmer's steely crew isn't about to let it go to their heads, though, as they prepare for a crucial home stand. The locals will face the always-tough K.C. Royals, who swept them last weekend, at Fenway today, tormorrow and for a doubleheader on Sunday, but you'd better stick to the tube, 'cause this series has been sold out for quite a while. There should be some seats left for the two-game stint against the rapidly faltering Chicago White Sox on Monday and Tuesday, because the way the Pale Hose have been playing lately they couldn...
...Bobby, whatsa matter?" Carlton asked. "Just keep it on the inside corners. Jam'im. Foster can't hit inside." By this time Zimmer had made it out to the mound, and he slapped a fatherly hand on Bobby's shoulder. Bobby looked at the hand distrustfully...
...gonna be goin' for it. You know it and he knows it. There's two down and they ain't gonna send Morgan home from third on a walk. One sharp pitch and they'll go home 'til next spring. Go get 'em." Another slap on the back and Zimmer and Fisk silently turned their backs and departed...
...scene was madness. The Cincinnati Reds. The LAST pitch. Zimmer stood fixed, staring stonily from the dugout, a Grand Teutonic field marshal in double-knits. Bill Lee was doing some yoga stretches in the bullpen, singing Hindu chants from the Bhagavad Gita. The lights from downtown Boston flickered off past right field in the glare of ballpark floodlights, the green monster stood impassive...
Bobby, frozen in his follow-up, watched the scene get madder and madder, with believing awe. His teammates swarmed him, they banged him and they laughed insanely: Fisk, Burleson, Scott, Yastrzemski, Rice...Lee and Zimmer hugged each other in ecstasy, 14-year-old girls kissing Bobby wetly, yelping fans tried to do everything but get inside of his skin...