Word: caterino
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...their friends can seek them out, or their enemies-the genial shufflers with a copy of Baseball Digest under one arm and a fiendish trivia question up their sleeve. Eddie Fegan, waggling his cane with the stylishness of Jimmy Cagney, presides over the front row behind third base. Bob Caterino, wearing his jacket with the legend SOMERVILLE BOXING CLUB across the chest, perches on a green utility box way behind first base-the fighter on his stool, still ready for all comers...
...Rick Ferrell-could end up ostracized, in public disgrace. Not to worry. True competitors, they keep track of pitching records and batting averages almost as closely as they keep track of each other's age. Problems can arise when arguments over facts give way to differences of opinion. Caterino says, "I've learned never to argue about religion, politics or Ted Williams." Friendships have severed over whether Dom DiMaggio or Jimmy Piersall was the better centerfielder. In general the guiding principle reads: older is better. A favorite opening sentence of almost any discussion is "If Tom Yawkey...
...Yawkey was a Real Gentleman. This is the ultimate accolade. Fegan thinks Eddie Yost is a Real Gentleman. Caterino thinks the old shortstop Johnny Pesky is a Real Gentleman. The Old Boys admire Ted Williams, but nobody calls him a Real Gentleman. Ted has not been forgiven for refusing...
...Boys the games in Winter Haven are played not so much against the opposing team as against other games in the past. There are ghosts on the field in the middle distance. Caterino remembers seeing Walter Johnson pitch and Ty Cobb tear up the bases. He can recall when an overflow Red Sox crowd, seated in a roped-off section of centerfield, parted like the Red Sea when the graceful Tris Speaker faded back to run down a fly. Fegan saw his first Red Sox game in 1911. As the Colonel says, "When...