Word: sox
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Turn off all the lights in the Prudential Center, shut down Fanueil Hall and lock up the Boston Common until the Red Sox have won it. When they actually clinch the title...
Boston, wait until it's over. Until the Red Sox head to Oakland. Then you can say whatever you want for five minutes only. Because the Sox don't need you to jinx their chances of going to the World Series...
Boston, wait until it's over. Until the Red Sox head to Oakland. Then, you can talk about the A.L East champion Red Sox...
...Chicago, 1919, Eight Men Out retells the true story of baseball's most embarrassing moment, the infamous Black Sox scandal. In the fall of 1919, eight members the Chicago White Sox, considered by many to be one of the best teams ever, conspired with gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cinncinati Reds. Although the eight players were acquitted in a court of law, baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned them from ever playing major league baseball again...
...book by Eliot Asinof, tries to answer one central question: what would drive these eight men to sacrifice the game of baseball for $10,000 dollars apiece? Sayles, who also plays Ring Lardner, a Chicago sportswriter who suspects wrongdoing in the Series, offers an explanantion--the stinginess of White Sox owner Charles Comiskey (Clifton James) While Comiskey courts the Chicago media with champagne-catered press conferences, he gives his players flat champagne and no extra bonuses for winning the pennant...