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Dick Durrell called last week from Connecticut to tell me the trophy was coming to Fairfield. ?It?s going to be here on July 21,? Dick said. ?I?ve been talking to our friend Jay about it for a while, and he?s been talking to the club. Jay told them if they wanted to do it, it should be by the end of July. The season?s really getting on, and people are starting to feel that the trophy?s too much about the past. Don?t you feel that...
...forty-plus years ago, a man in exile-a man like I am today, a man like he still is, a man precisely like the one Aeschylus conjured when he wrote in Agamemnon, ?I know how men in exile feed on dreams of hope.? Powers was living in Connecticut and working in New York, but it was all Siberia to him. To hazard an even more purple metaphor, his world had become a large cell. The bars were pinstripes. There were pinstripes on his commuter train, pinstripes on his subway, and pinstripes in his office, all reminding him of those...
...Over the seasons the BLOHARDS grew stronger, and their ever more reckless bravado proved irresistible to recruits. A lonely Henry Berry, who was also at the Yale Club lunch with myself and Powers that afternoon in ?85, had been riding a late train to his home in Darien, Connecticut, one night many years ago. He had just been to the Stadium, where the Red Sox had lost, naturally, to the Yankees. ?I was deep in my thoughts of despair,? Berry remembered, ?when all of a sudden, from the back of the car, I heard four or five voices raised...
...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 that such establishments played a large part in BLOHARDS lore. If this club left plaques to mark its memories, many...
...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 laid one down in 1878. ?The Ballad of Bunts Berry...