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...left a college campus since 1974. If you have the money to travel around the world, go do that. Eastern Europe is an especially exciting place if you’re interested in the humanities, government, or sociology. If you haven’t been to Fenway Park, go to Fenway Park. You gotta do that. It’s worth going to see the great museums, the Freedom Trail...
...game speak for itself. In "For Openers," an essay on the occasion of Opening Day 1982, Angell meets up with a 92-year-old pitcher named Smokey Joe Wood, a member of the 1912 Red Sox who had been present at the first official game ever played at Fenway Park. Naturally, in the presence of such an oracle, Angell asks him what the game was like, and he has the wisdom to quote the oracle's answer in full. "I have no idea," Smokey Joe replies. "Can't remember a single thing about it. I didn't pitch--that...
...brightest” of Harvard’s vocalists. Culled from the Harvard University Choir, the Choral Fellows are 12 of Harvard’s elect singers, who have performed at events such as an Academy of Arts and Sciences awards ceremony and the 2001 opening game in Fenway Park...
...history professors, an avowed Yankees fan, discreetly encouraged me to retain the faith as a native New Yorker, regardless of my dislocation. Nonetheless, he reluctantly acknowledged that a game in Fenway Park is a required Boston experience. The summer after my sophomore year was filled with trips to the park at the height of recent Sox glory. Pedro wasn’t just a knockout pitcher, but Dominican Royalty to the bleacher creatures. And Nomar and Manny just fed more fire to the fervor...
...losers will one day triumph. The hat fit perfectly, and seemed like it was meant to be worn on my head. I decided it was time to become a convert. I’ve lived here for four years, I’ve watched summers become fall inside Fenway Park, and I’ve become disgusted with the Yankees’ snobbery...