Word: fenway
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trotted onto the field at Boston's Fenway Park for the first of a three-game series with the Red Sox, DiMaggio was far from mid-season physical condition, but a load had been taken off his mind and he seemed to feel nine feet tall. In his first time at bat, he lashed out a sharp single. The next time, he slammed a home run, drove in the runs that won the game. Red Sox fans came to their feet and gave him one of the loudest and longest ovations ever heard in Fenway Park. Joe was back...
...Fenway Park has Theodore S. Williams. Sportsman's Park has Stanley Musial. Yankee Stadium has Joseph Dimaggio. Cleveland's Municipal Stadium has a half-dozen men whose autographs are in great demand. But Braves Field seems to have no one of even moderate pen appeal...
Wailing Wall: Fenway Fence Turns...
...removing three baseballs and ancient Denny Galehouse from the vicinity of Fenway Park yesterday afternoon, Lou Boudroau and Kenny Keltner spared Boston the aesthetically unpleasant experience of a city series. We say aesthetically unpleasant because the horrid fact of the matter is that the majority of Boston rooters are Red Sex partisans, and a city series would have found Billy Southworth's gallant crew in the position of villain in the piece...
Apparently, this Sox appeal stems from their ability to field a group of nice family men who can hit the ball with authority if not with fluesse. Women love the Fenway glamor-boys, a preference based partially on the fact that Dave Ferries (he's cute) managed to win 20 games during the war, and partly on the fact that one can follow the team with far less trouble than is necessary at the Wigwam...