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...bus trip: Back in ?85, this was already a sixteen-year tradition. In it, the exiled traveled back, literally and figuratively, to the homeland. I joined them in the bus that year, and observed that they seemed to become younger by the mile as the bus rolled north through New England. It was something confirmed a time or two more, back in the ?80s-back when I was a better BLOHARD...
...know where the bus leaves from these days-it?s hardly a fitting outing for Caroline or Jack or Mary Grace (our children, who wouldn?t be allowed anyway as they are seven, five and five years of age), so I no longer go. But back then, when Berry was in charge of it, the tradition was for the bus to pull away from a specific curb in Westport, Connecticut. ?The trip starts in front of Mario?s bar,? Powers told me emphatically, when giving me my first marching orders. This only substantiated for me an already pretty solid conviction...
...good spirits that morning back in ?85, resplendent in his bright Red Sox 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...
...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 laid one down in 1878. ?The Ballad of Bunts Berry? used to be dutifully recited each April as the bus passed the old East Hartford cutoff. The year I traveled with the BLOHARDS, Berry himself delivered the rendition of the legendary tale. Maybe Powers still tells of Bunts Berry during the bus trip, maybe another old-timer like Dick Durrell, the guy who organized the championship trophy?s upcoming visit to Fairfield...
...Berry sat down after his stirring tribute to his grandfather, copies of the 1985 BLOHARDS quiz were handed out. It was a simple test for any fanatical fan, and the bus trippers were, to a man, fanatical fans...