Abstract
Students on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts sat glued to the tube. This was the final game of the 1986 World Series—a championship contest between the New York Mets and the Boston Red Sox that had raised the collective level of excitement to a feverish pitch. Watching TV in residence halls around the campus, groups of undergraduates rooted their approval, booed the opposition, and drank in excess. Having sat through a lengthy rain delay and a frustrating loss for the Red Sox the night before, the majority of them were eager to see the “hometown boys finally make good.” Surely, this would be the night when the Red Sox—widely regarded as the “white team”—would put to rest their reputation for choking in the clutch, for never being able to win the Big Game (the Red Sox had not won a World Series since 1914).
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