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In early January of 1967, baseball in Boston was not a particularly hot topic. In world news, one headline announced: " LBJ asks for 6% income surtax to offset war cost." A later one says "He stakes future on moderate war", whatever that meant.The football world was building up to the first Super Bowl (it was only called a "championshiip game" then) between the Packers and Chiefs. In boxing, Cassius Clay, not yet generally called Muhammed Ali, was trying to get his draft reclassification revoked. But also, new Sox manager Dick Williams was conducting a lengthy interview with Globe legend Will McDonough. Williams, his wife and three children were living in an apartment building in Santa Anita, California. Things were already going his way. He recently had won $6000 in prizes on TV's Hollywood Squares. "You're in the wrong business," said the writer. "I don't think so," Williams replied. As a former Sox player, Dick had see...