Boston turn of the century

After Williams stepped down for good in , the Red Sox entered a stale existence for a good chunk of the decade in front of an increasingly empty Fenway Park, reaching a nadir in with losses. The cobwebs were suddenly swept aside in when vibrant young manager Dick Williams re-awoke the Red Sox to a startling AL pennant behind the heroics of triple-crown star Carl Yastrzemski. The Sox fell short again at the World Series once more in seven games to the Cardinals , but long-term vitality had returned to Boston.

The Red Sox spent much of the s playing second fiddle in the AL East, often in heartbreaking fashion; they finished a mere half-game behind Detroit in and blew a game lead to the Yankees in , losing a one-game playoff to determine the divisional champ—reviving claims that The Curse was alive and well.

Boston did break through to one pennant in with sensational rookie efforts from Fred Lynn and Jim Rice—but yet again lost a memorable seven-game Fall Classic, this time to Cincinnati in what many hail as the greatest World Series ever.

The winning ways continued in Boston—but apparently so did The Curse. Hall of Famers emerged with five-time batting champ Wade Boggs and fiery ace Roger Clemens, who won his first two of an eventual record seven Cy Young Awards.

After another AL East title in , the Red Sox fell into disrepair for the next four years as an unusually anemic offense weighed the team down in the standings. Louis for their first world title in 86 years; they won a second World Series three years later against Colorado. While these more specialized cars were probably most often used in company service, it is believed that they would also be used for revenue loads as the occasion warranted.

Standard Steel Car Co. Beginning in and continuing into , nearly additional copies of the design were acquired. Laconia Car Co. Notes: 1. By the s, newer immigrant groups would also begin moving to these areas as well as to fast-growing industrial suburbs such as East Cambridge, Chelsea, Somerville, Watertown, Malden, Quincy, Waltham, and Framingham.

As in the first wave, many second wave male immigrants worked as day laborers on the streets, docks, and railroads. Moreover, construction work building new roads, bridges, subways, and streetcar lines was especially important in this period.

Irish women continued to work in domestic service, but were gradually replaced by newcomers from Eastern Europe and black migrants from the South. Overwhelmingly, though, second wave immigrants—both men and women—found jobs in local factories making shoes, garments, textiles, rubber goods, chemicals, candy, and other products.

The reorganization and mechanization of such industries meant that higher-paid skilled workers could be replaced by unskilled immigrant workers earning significantly lower wages.