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...those of us from the baseball hinterland, keeping the baseball faith is even more important in Boston. Red Sox fans can teach us about perseverance, dedication and preservation. You've got to love a city whose stadium controversy is about whether to keep the ballpark that opened in 1912 or to build a brand-new one that, according to the team website, would be "taking all the great things with us. The Green Monster. Pesky's Pole. The manual scoreboard." To travel to Camden Yards in Baltimore is to understand the profound influence that the park in the Boston Fens...
...playing for a New York team: "I would retire first. It's the most hectic, nerve-racking city. Imagine having to take the 7 train to the ballpark, looking like you're [riding through] Beirut next to some kid with purple hair, next to some queer with AIDS right next to some dude who just got out of jail for the fourth time right next to some 20-year-old mom with four kids. It's depressing...
...PEDRO MARTINEZ Chicks may dig the long ball, as the ad says, but teams dig good pitching. While home runs flew in every ballpark, Martinez gave up only 2.07 runs a game, farther below the major league average than any other pitcher's record. If that math is too hard, try this: Martinez's 23 wins brought his talent-poor Red Sox to the American League championship, where the ace handed the Yankees their only defeat of the play-offs...
Rose has since been in and out of prison for tax evasion; launched half a dozen businesses, ranging from the Pete Rose Ballpark Cafe to his Hit King line of clothing; and become a regular on the baseball-memorabilia circuit, where his income has derived primarily from signing bats, balls and baseball cards. Throughout his wanderings in the baseball wilderness, he has continued to maintain that he never bet on the game, as if willing himself to believe his own revisionary history. In large part, baseball and its fans chose not to listen...
...Patkin was the Clown Prince of Baseball, a one-man barnstorming road show who appeared in nearly every minor and major league ballpark in the country over the course of 50 years...