Word: sox
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...lets the reader overhear men sizing up other men, judging them, often not gently. (Mostly men, yes; his women characters tend to be not much more than complications in the lives of their menfolk.) In The Progress of the Seasons, a 1989 book nominally about Boston's accursed Red Sox baseball team but mostly about the author's family, Higgins offers a shimmering truth: Irish Catholic males can't talk to one another about important personal matters. (Scandinavian Protestant males can't either, for the record.) So he, his father and his grandfather talked about baseball with deep seriousness...
...Crimson will have more than vengeance on its side today. They will also have the natural grass of Lafayette's Metzgar Field. This year's Harvard team bears a striking resemblance to the Red Sox: no matter how strong the team is, a lack of overall speed has meant losses on turf. The Crimson was 1-3-1 on turf this year, including the loss on Springfield...
...Sox may be the team of Boston Brahmins. But in the Big Apple we take the truly purist approach...
...fact was that Senators and the American public seemed as impressed with Souter's intelligence as they were with his image as a shy, decent man who likes old cars, black-and-white television sets and the Boston Red Sox. During the confirmation hearings, Souter, 51, slept on an extra bed at the apartment of his mentor, New Hampshire Senator Warren Rudman; soon he will settle into a modest one-bedroom apartment that the Justice-to-be found, with Rudman's help, within walking distance of the court. Souter's few sticks of furniture and more numerous stacks of books...
...will probably not be reassigned to cover the team this season. "She's been brutalized. I'm not sure it would be fair to send her back," says Herald executive sports editor Bob Sales. Furthermore, he says, "she is not in any shape" to cover the Boston Red Sox, contenders for baseball's American League pennant...