Word: fannings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Being a Boston Red Sox fan a thousand miles from the Hub is not all that easy. It consists of trying to glean the game story out of a box score, since the typical game blurb was only a sentence or two long. It also means staying up to get the ball scores if the Sox were out West. Otherwise you'd be kept in suspense until two days later when the story would finally make the morning editions...
...misguided Yankee fan worked in the office where Sam and I worked. He reminded us almost daily of how the Sox swooned last year and told us they would again this year, thus allowing the Yanks to cop the division title. He was wrong...
...Green Monster's disciples. "We arrived just about midnight," Laake said, "and there were about 800 people in front of us, so we camped down in sleeping bags right under the right field wall and tried to go to sleep. I'm from Cincinnati and a big Reds fan but I wasn't about to advertise that last night...
Sullivan, long standing Sox fan, had other things to attend to before bedding down for the night. "After we got settled a little after 12:30 a.m., I began writing my English 12 paper. I finished it around 3 a.m., had some hot chocolate, talked to some folk and went to sleep. At 5 a.m. somebody yelled "better run" and everyone panicked and headed for Gate C. And there we stood for four hours waiting for tickets...
Taves arrived about seven and nonchalantly snuck into the middle of the line. "I've been a Red Sox fan since '63 and am determined to see every series game," he said. "If I can't get tickets I plan to climb the Windsor Canadian billboard." No greater love hath...