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Hochanadel currently leads the Crimson in doubles (8), triples (3), home runs (3, including a blast over the Green Monster at Fenway during the Beanpot), and total bases (46). And as if that weren't enough, he is tied with freshman Brett Vankoski for the lead in RBI's with...
This year's Opening Day game broadened my thinking about sports even more because I realized that I was uncertain why I had returned to Fenway Park. I paged through the complimentary program (the owners still don't get it, do they?) and recognized maybe half of the names on the Red Sox roster and virtually none on the Twins. Then I remembered that I could have easily named the starting line-ups of the entire American League not too many years...
...hard fan that I once was, why do I keep coming back to Fenway Park in early (or, in this year's case, late) April? The answer, which developed slowly during the game, parallels my earlier response--shared memory...
...sign held by a Red Sox fan at Wednesday's Fenway opener was accurate. "How quickly we forget," it read. We should not be so quick to dismiss the greed and corruption of the past with token gestures by the players and the owners...
Neither the smiling visage of Cal Ripken on the cover of Sports Illustrated nor a banner reading, "Thanks Fans" at the bottom of the Fenway scoreboard should persuade any fan that the ills which continually detract from the purity of sport are cured...