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...Fenway’s status in baseball lore swelled with the decades, and the Red Sox’ 100th anniversary last year rekindled media interest in the park and its history. Steve Buckley, a baseball columnist for the Boston Herald who also does sports spots for New England Cable News, wanted to produce a segment on Fenway’s first at-bat. In search of a possible body double for Wingate as part of the spot, he visited a Harvard baseball practice run by Coach Joe Walsh...
...were walking around the ballpark and [Buckley] said, ‘He looks like him,’” Walsh says. “And it’s Chaney Sheffield...
...knew I wanted to get a kid that looked like him,” Buckley says of Sheffield. “He looked like him, had the right kind of trot, good smile, seemed the right kind of guy. He sort of looked like an old -timer. Then we put the uniform on and he was a dead ringer...
Sheffield put on a vintage uniform, grabbed a bat and reluctantly swung at live pitching for Buckley’s cameraman. But as Sheffield kept swinging, the balls jumped right off the wooden bat Buckley had lent...
...best thing about this kid was that when I was introduced to him, he wanted nothing to do with it,” Buckley says. “It was only after we had him up there for a while and started swinging that he got into...