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“They will come to your door as innocent as children…It will be as if they dipped themselves in magic waters, the memories will be so thick they’ll have to brush them away from their faces…” Terrance Mann
My dad once told me, “The older you get; the more you realize that its all the good things that bring the tears.” The older I get the more I realize how right Dad was about so many, many things. … Continue reading
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Tagged "Pumpsie" Green, baseball, Boston Red Sox, Fenway Park, mlb, Red Sox, sports, Ted Williams, vic-wertz
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OF ALL-STAR GAMES, STREAKS AND PURSUITS… “The best of times, the worst of times.” Charles Dickens
The All-Star break is here; a time held baseball tradition that dates back to 1933. For 89 times baseball has paused to celebrate its best players from each league in a one game contest with the prize being simply pride. … Continue reading
“CHA CHA” OR “BABY BULL” & “THE SAY HEY KID”…
“Giants Legendary Hall of Famer Dead at 86” the newsfeed said, coming just days after my son’s text which simply read, RIP Willie Mays. Back-to-back cold shot reminders to those of us traversing the back nine of our lives, that … Continue reading
SIX YEARS GONE…PUMPSIE, EARL, GENNARO AND A SIX-YEAR-OLD KID.
“Long ago and far away, life was clear, close your eyes. Remember is a place from long ago…Remember close your eyes and you can see” Harry Nilsson In honor of these three Venice High baseball greats, I make my return … Continue reading
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The Anatomy of a Rivalry, The Sixth Stanza….It Comes to Fruition…..REVISITED
The Anatomy of a Rivalry, The Sixth Stanza….It Comes to Fruition….. Posted on March 24, 2012by fenwaypark100 Well we’ve been through a few stanzas of the Red Sox/Yankee rivalry song. The last verse was the Joe D/Teddy Ballgame wonder of … Continue reading
The Anatomy of a Rivalry, the Fifth Stanza, The Kid, The Clipper and 1941….REVISITED
Despite what you may have heard or read about in curse ridden terms, the Red Sox Yankee rivalry actually began as a rivalry between their two best players; a guy named Ted Williams and another named Joe DiMaggio. It began … Continue reading
The Anatomy of a Rivalry, the Fourth Stanza, Back from the Darkness of the Abyss…..REVISITED
The Red Sox/Yankee rivalry really began as the rivalry between Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. For in the first 20 years of the American League the Yankees were pretty bad and the Red Sox were the best team in baseball. … Continue reading
The Anatomy of a Rivalry, The Third Stanza, Into the Abyss…..REVISITED
Following Babe Ruth’s sale to the Yankees, the Red Sox entered their worst decade in their history. The 1920s found them at the bottom of the heap throughout. The Yankees on the other hand became, well, the Yankees and it … Continue reading
THE ANATOMY OF A RIVALRY…..THE FIRST STANZA REVISITED
THE ANATOMY OF A RIVALRY…..THE FIRST STANZA Posted on March 13, 2012by fenwaypark100 As I have revitalized this blog, I have spent some time looking through all the “stats”, that’s right blogs have stats. Anyway, what the stats tell me … Continue reading
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