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...gifts were apparent from the beginning. After starring in four sports for Anderson, S.C.'s Westside and Hanna high schools, Rice signed with the Sox and spent four years in the minors. In his last year at Triple A in Pawtucket, R.I., he led the International League in batting average, home runs and RBIs, a performance that made him minor league Player of the Year. When he joined the Red Sox full time in 1975, he was 22 and a born star. From the third week of the season until he broke his finger at season's end, Rice...
...Hubert Vogelsinger resigned and the Minutemen began to lose consistently. Attendance dropped to a low of 150, and the team vacated its, "permanent home," which had greeted it with open arms and North Quincy High cheerleaders, to play out the script in that soggy minor league ball park in Pawtucket...
...hope that professional sports do not reach the point they did in Pawtucket when the Minutemen even forgot to bring a game ball...
...full moon was suspended above the center-field flagpole against the black sky, when Carlton Fisk dug in at home to lead off the bottom of the twelfth. When Fisk stroked the ball high toward the Green Monster, the hearts of Red Sox fans from Concord, New Hampshire, to Pawtucket, RhodeIsland, skipped a beat. Was it fair or foul? Ancient Fenway was generous this time: the ball caromed off the foul pole and into fair territory for a home...
...ball game, or 3-3--and that'll tell you how good he is." The formula for these things is usually having two good back-to-back years in the minors. If Brayton performs well for Bristol this year--or for Pawtucket, where he could go in mid-season--then he's ready for the big leagues...