May 20, 1976 Boston pitcher Bill Lee separates his shoulder during a brawl with the Yankees that begins when New York's Lou Piniella crashes into Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk at home plate.

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Our sports culture has a way of remembering champions and forgetting the rest, the only exceptions coming from those teams that have offered up dramatic moments in defeat (Ralph Branca serving up a home run ball to Bobby Thomson, Carlton Fisk pounding a homer off the foul pole to keep his team alive for one more day, and Bill Buckner booting a grounder).

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