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October 31, 2013
Halloween Knight
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October 30, 2013
With a win tonight at Fenway Park in Game 6, the Red Sox can wrap up the World Series. John Lackey will the get start for Boston while Michael Wacha will take the mound for the Cardinals.
By JON COUTURE
At Fenway Park
October 30, 2013 12:00 AM
The 1918 World Series was no jewel. World War I looted talent league-wide that year, forced a shortened season and rendered the Fall Classic an afterthought (at best) outside Boston and Chicago. The last gasp of the dead-ball era, the Red Sox beat the Cubs by scoring just nine runs in six games. Before Game 5, unhappy with a plan to drastically cut their Series payouts, the players combined to stage a strike that delayed first pitch by an hour.
Fans were furious, especially given the backdrop of the war, and just 15,238 came to a chilly Fenway Park the next day to see the Sox clinch what remains their last championship won at home. For their troubles, the league withheld the players' winner's medallions — they weren't distributed until 1993 — and each Sox regular received still the lowest share in Series history: about $1,100.
Not adjusted for inflation, right around what the cheapest ticket for tonight's potential clincher will cost when you're reading this. (It's $983.75 — for standing room, mind you — as I write this.) Even in modern dollars, that share's less than a half-day's pay for John Lackey.
The man with a chance to seal his, and his team's, place next door in history.
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131030/SPORTS/310300333
Behind Lackey, Red Sox have chance to win it all at Fenway
With a win tonight at Fenway Park in Game 6, the Red Sox can wrap up the World Series. John Lackey will the get start for Boston while Michael Wacha will take the mound for the Cardinals.
By JON COUTURE
At Fenway Park
October 30, 2013 12:00 AM
The 1918 World Series was no jewel. World War I looted talent league-wide that year, forced a shortened season and rendered the Fall Classic an afterthought (at best) outside Boston and Chicago. The last gasp of the dead-ball era, the Red Sox beat the Cubs by scoring just nine runs in six games. Before Game 5, unhappy with a plan to drastically cut their Series payouts, the players combined to stage a strike that delayed first pitch by an hour.
Fans were furious, especially given the backdrop of the war, and just 15,238 came to a chilly Fenway Park the next day to see the Sox clinch what remains their last championship won at home. For their troubles, the league withheld the players' winner's medallions — they weren't distributed until 1993 — and each Sox regular received still the lowest share in Series history: about $1,100.
Not adjusted for inflation, right around what the cheapest ticket for tonight's potential clincher will cost when you're reading this. (It's $983.75 — for standing room, mind you — as I write this.) Even in modern dollars, that share's less than a half-day's pay for John Lackey.
The man with a chance to seal his, and his team's, place next door in history.
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20131030/SPORTS/310300333
October 29, 2013
Boston Red Sox's David Ross hits an RBI double during the seventh inning of Game 5 of baseball's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BBO_WORLD_SERIES_WATCH?SITE=MABED&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
WORLD SERIES WATCH: Red Sox win 3-1 to take 3-2 Series lead back to Boston for Game 6
Boston Red Sox's David Ross hits an RBI double during the seventh inning of Game 5 of baseball's World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals Monday, Oct. 28, 2013, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BBO_WORLD_SERIES_WATCH?SITE=MABED&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT
October 28, 2013
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