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...Fenway Park was already full half an hour before game time last Saturday. Someone behind where Ron and I were sitting had a transistor radio on with Joe Garagiola babbling about the Reds' starting pitcher, Don Gullett. "I think you'd have to call Gullett a pure pitcher," Garagiola said. "And with his ability to bat, you'd have to call him a pure hitter, too. For that matter, Gullett's just a pure athlete...
...before the gates were even open. Between the Kenmore subway stop and the bleacher gates, Sam, a friend of mine who had come all the way from South Carolina to watch the game, had already bought two Red Sox hats, a pennant, a bumper sticker, a coke and a Fenway frank. He was also appropriately dressed in a Bosox red sweater and navy blue pants. He did withstand the temptation to get the other items being sold, which ranged from buttons with a picture of the gold dust twins (Lynn and Rice) to a World Series pen and pencil...
When we got inside Fenway, Ron and I found that our seats on row 50 were just four rows down from the scoreboard in right field, while Sam and his little brother sat a couple of rows down from us. The Sox were just finishing batting practice when we got there. Whenever someone like Yaz or Fred Lynn would finish hitting, a horde of reporters would descend on him for the latest quote...
Otherwise, all hands are fine, and as a result, Columbia's rehabilitation will have to suffer yet another setback. And cool it on those Columbia jokes. After all, it's bad enough we're here and not at Fenway Park to begin with...
...stage was set for Fred Lynn, wonderful Fred Lynn, everybody's favorite rookie, Fred "it rhymes with win" Lynn. The count ran full, and the fans were dropping like flies in the stands, each and every one the victim of one too many Fenway franks and a belly full of butterflies...