Word: fenways
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Boston Red Sox made a less than glorious return to Fenway Park, dropping their home opener to the Chicago White Sox for the second straight year...
Well, this afternoon. I'll be meeting my friends as the Red Sox open at Fenway. It's a ritual I've performed since 1977, when I first moved to the Boston area and the Red Sox replaced my seventh-grade idols, the Oakland...
...look back on past opening days, they all seem to blend together into one cold, rainy memory. Every year I trek to Fenway with visions of summer--and each year I leave certain that I've contracted pneumonia...
...infield practice begins, the Old Boys take their seats. In Fenway Park their preferred view is from Section 22, behind home plate. In this Florida jewel box (capacity: 3,800), the Old Boys have developed private territories, holding court in fixed locations where their friends can seek them out, or their enemies-the genial shufflers with a copy of Baseball Digest under one arm and a fiendish trivia question up their sleeve. Eddie Fegan, waggling his cane with the stylishness of Jimmy Cagney, presides over the front row behind third base. Bob Caterino, wearing his jacket with the legend SOMERVILLE...
When the memories burrow back, fumbling for a lost face or fact, the saving phrase is "You could ask Tommy." Tommy McCarthy is the unofficial connection with the Red Sox organization for the Old Boys of Spring. Tommy has been hustling around Fenway Park for 50 years, come this summer, since he began working the concessions as a 16-year-old. For 42 years he has been on the Red Sox payroll. This is his 38th spring training...