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...best-selling memoir. Novels like Wild Ginger are celebrated for their gripping historical accounts, but one suspects their success in the West is due in larger part to the authors' own sensational life stories. The book-jacket bios themselves play at the American immigrant fantasy: an attractive woman warrior babe escapes tyrannical regime, washes up in the New World and ends up making lots of little Uncle Sams...
...many Red Sox fans have ever seen a production of the musical revues My Lady Friends or No No Nanette, but they continue to loom large over the Beantown sports scene. The entrepreneurial Red Sox owner Harry Frazee sold the Boston star Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees in late 1919 for $100,000 which he could use to plough into the plays...
Sometime in the last two weeks, the Crimson rediscovered the fun of baseball. Maybe it was down in Connecticut with four victories over Yale, or maybe it was playing at Fenway Park amid memories of legends like Babe Ruth and Ted Williams. There can’t be much in baseball as fun as hitting a line drive off of the Green Monster...
...BABE, YOU'RE A ROCK STAR The ceiling on prices for groovy baby's wear is high. Bon Jovi drummer Tico Torres' line, Rockstarbaby, features backstage faves like leather jackets and pants. To look as hip as Ava, right: about...
Senior Chaney Sheffield is a good four inches taller and 50 pounds heavier than the Crimson’s description of Wingate, who played back when Babe Ruth had yet to don a Red Sox uniform, let alone get dealt to the Yankees. Sheffield’s resemblance to Wingate in the mind’s eye of a local Boston journalist—along with a timely milestone in Boston sports history—combined to alter Sheffield’s role on the Harvard baseball team and give the Crimson a much-needed boost at the plate...