Word: bridgeport
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...downtown blocks that usually go dark by 11 p.m., skyscraper lights burned into the wee hours with "Go Sox" signs flashing in their windows. On Michigan Avenue, the city's main drag, cars full of whooping, face-painted fans slowed traffic to a crawl. In the blue-collar Southside Bridgeport neighborhood, Sox home turf, giddy mobs of grown-ups in Sox regalia (a few of whom appeared old enough to have been around for the last Sox win) descended on the closed Cellular Field, where they used brooms to sweep away Texas toast and hoisted signs reading "Houston...
Still, for every voter incensed by the apparent excesses of machine politics, there are probably more backers ready to rally around Daley. "I have never seen the city look better, run better," says Jay Schaller, whose family owns a bar in the working-class neighborhood of Bridgeport, a longtime Daley power base. "And if it takes a little patronage to get it done, so be it." That is a sentiment that Daley is banking on. "People used to say, 'You're the mayor's son--you don't have to do anything,'" Daley says. "I've worked very hard...
...left plaques to mark its memories, many would be affixed to various watering holes throughout the Northeast. When confronted with that theory, Powers demurred. ?We?re a nice, quiet, refined group,? he insisted. ?For instance, on the bus trip, there is a rule: No drinking until the bus passes Bridgeport?-which is nine miles from Westport-?unless absolutely necessary...
...sweater and a pair of nearly as bright lime green slacks. Although he was already a man of more than fifty years, that day he was a teenager. He stood at the head of the bus and addressed forty BLOHARDS squirming in their seats. He laid out the Bridgeport rule. The bus was a sea of Red Sox caps and painter?s hats (remember the trend?) embossed with nicknames of the era-DEWEY, BIG FOOT, HIT MAN (remember them?). On some of the older hats...
...pilgrimage followed the forever route, due east, then north for Hartford. They cheered Berry in Bridgeport, and they cheered him anew in Hartford, a place that had assumed a hallowed significance in BLOHARDS lore. Berry had been born in Hartford, a place that, entirely due to Berry, had assumed a hallowed significance in BLOHARDS legend. Berry, who as a Connecticut lad could have gone either way (Sox or Yanks), had, as he says, ?grown up under the spell of Sox radio announcer Fred Hoey.? Berry?s grandfather Bunts Berry, the first man in the history of Hartford to bunt, having...