The resurgent Red Sox of 1967 have taken on a mythical aura as stories are magnified and embellished regarding the dynamic run for the baseball roses. This was a twelve team division with only one body without a body bag when the tally was done Sunday evening after the last outs when Dick McAuliffe grounded into his second DP of the season in Detroit to give the Red Sox an impossible pennant.
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In Boston there was jubilation as the area around Fenway was crowded with those of us who attended the game, drifters coming in for a potential party and the usual swarms of college kids primarily from Northeastern and Boston University.