Word: boxful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After a flaming gear box on a Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) train caused the evacuation of Kendall Square station yesterday afternoon, an estimated 5000 passengers experienced subway delays of more than an hour...
...back to the games. Watching from the press box is a strange experience. There I was, watching my favorite team in the playoffs with 504 people who eat, sleep and write baseball--and, like them, I wasn't allowed to cheer...
Being among the sportswriters was also an enthralling experience. During the games they were fairly lighthearted, laughing at players' errors and throwing their wide range of opinions back and forth. An atmosphere of calm and lightheartedness pervaded the press box...
After the games they were another race altogether, devouring statistics and quotations as their fingers furiously turned facts and feelings into stories. The press box was a mad house...
...hope to return to the Fenway press box. My grades may suffer and I may go only to see my team choke as they have since 1918. But to be at Fenway from pre-game to game time to lights out, to watch sports writers change from joking critics to intense bearers of good or bad news, to possibly witness the transformation of my favorite team from chokers to world champions is well worth...