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By Andy
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October in New England, the leaves are changing, the weather is getting colder, and oh yeah… the Red Sox are going to the World Series! What a series with the New York Yankees. They are a great team and our biggest rival, so when we can come back from 3 games down and win the American League Series, it really means something. First off I should apologies to Dave Weber for this article being a couple days late, but like most of you I have been up until 1:00 am every night watching baseball, so my schedule got a little behind. One thing you will notice about baseball is that there is a lot of down time and the games can be very long. The problem with this is the announcers feel they need to talk the entire time. So I managed to hear the same stats over and over again. We all know now that the last World Series the Red Sox won was in 1918, we lost the World Series in 1986, etc… So I thought it would be fun to look up some different stats and compare Red Sox history with Porsche history. History started about the same time for both the Red Sox and Porsche. In 1900 the Lohner-Porsche Electric Car was shown at the Paris Auto Show 1 year before the Boston Somersets joined the American League. In 1931 Ferdinand Porsche founded the Porsche Engineering office in Stuttgart while back in Boston, Tom Yawkey was getting ready to take over the Red Sox. In 1948 the first Porsche was built shortly after the “Green Monster” at Fenway Park was painted green. In the 1950’s Porsche had many successes including its first win at Le Mans in 1951, the creation of the 550 Spyder in 1953, and the 10,000th 356 produced in 1956. Meanwhile the Red Sox had few successes in the 1950s with the exception of a 17 run inning against the Tigers in 1953 and some great players such as Ted Williams. The 1960’s for Porsche was all about the 911. In 1961 work began on a new six cylinder engine and in 1964 production started for the 911 and it hasn’t stopped yet. As the first 911s were being built, Tony Conigliaro was starting his career with the Red Sox. Then in 1967 the Red Sox had a season that was nicknamed “The Impossible Dream” and they were lead to the World Series by Carl Yastrzemski only to loose to the Cardinals in seven. The 70’s were very busy for Porsche as five different models were introduced to the public: The 914 in 1970, the incredible 917 in 1972, the first 911 turbo in 1974, the 924 in 1975, and finally the 928 in 1977. In 1974 my favorite Red Sox player of all time, Jim Rice, joined the Sox. In 1975 the Red Sox once again took a shot at becoming World Champs, only to walk away empty handed. In 1982 the Porsche 956 started winning race after race after race. The 956 is the most successful race car of all time. In 1985 the 959 was introduced to Europe and very few were brought to the United States as the car did not meet certain US standards. In 1988 Porsche launched the four-wheel drive 911 C4. All I have to say about the Red Sox in the 80’s is 1986, World Series, game 7…enough said. I want to jump ahead to today. Porsche’s history has always been successful and I believe it will continue to be. As I finish up this article, I am watching game 1 of the World Series and can’t help but think that if the Red Sox can pull this off it just may change the way we look at Red Sox History. Go Sox! |
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