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Article: A New Red Sox Unfolding
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- October 1, 1990
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Boston Red Sox mythology has so completely supplanted Boston Red
Sox reality that intelligent baseball fans have great difficulty
seeing the actual human beings inside the Bosox uniforms. As a
result, a wonderful effort by a very limited but extremely
tough-minded team is being underappreciated.
If you're waiting for this Red Sox team to choke, don't hold your
breath. These Sox may get their brains beaten out, as they did this
afternoon, 10-5, by a 19-hit Toronto Blue Jays attack. But they
don't panic much or quit or go brain dead in the clutch.
Throughout New England the moaning and finger pointing, the myth
mongering and omen spotting will begin anew. All that's required for
the gun-shy ...