Word: fenways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moderation, he does not mind the public inconvenience attending his celebrity, at least not as much as he used to. It would be nice, however, if he could be left in peace to watch a baseball game at Fenway Park. "Everybody wants to be a part of something. I understand that now," he says. "In college I didn't, but I'm getting better. Some days I want to be around people, but other days I just don't." Seeking privacy, he folds himself up like a lawn chair--haunches, levers and various other right angles--into a tiny airport...
...they here, these Red Sox of other days, why is it that they seem to belong at Fenway despite being dispersed to other teams other leagues, other careers...
They belong at Fenway, and you belong at Fenway, because there is a unity of fan and player and place that is the Boston Red Sox--more than won-lost records or World Championships ever could...
...grass that's the first thing you see when you come out of the tunnels under Fenway Park, even before the rest of your senses are assaulted, overloaded with spring...
Before the crack of Pesky's bat hitting infield practice or the smell of cigar that for some reason is only tolerable here or the damp, salty, Fenway frank or the shove for autographs around the dugout, it's the green that hits you, and your eyes that tell you that you're back...