[hobbes1]

You are quite the font of knowledge..BD....

Another point illustrated by your pointing out of those facts, is the intellectual laziness of what passes for sports journalism these days. How come, for instance I am only hearing of this...Now....lol

[BluesDuke]

Another point illustrated by your pointing out of those facts, is the intellectual laziness of what passes for sports journalism these days. How come, for instance I am only hearing of this...Now....lol

Probably because you may not have read some of the books I have read which address the 1986 World Series - like The Curse of the Bambino and At Fenway: Dispatches from Red Sox Nation, by Dan Shaughnessy, who has covered the Red Sox for the Boston Globe for about seventeen years or thereabout; like Sports Illustrated: Baseball, an anthology which includes Peter Gammons's excellent review (it appeared in the magazine in February 1987) of Games Six and Seven; like Fenway: An Unexpurgated History of the Boston Red Sox, by Peter Golenbock (he who has done lovely oral histories of the 1949-64 Yankees, the Brooklyn Dodgers, the St. Louis Cardinals, the Chicago Cubs, and, most recently, the Mets); like The Heart of the Order, Thomas Boswell's third anthology of his baseball columns and features, which includes a section of columns from his Washington Post coverage of the 1986 postseason called "1986: Ultimate Red Sox", and, like Roger Angell's Season Ticket, which includes his original New Yorker article, "Not So, Boston," about the 1986 pennant races and postseason. These books are well enough within the reach of those who want to know.

On my tombstone it is going to read: CAUSE OF DEATH - BOSTON RED SOX. - Ray Goulding (Bob and Ray)