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Roosevelt has raised $8,000 in the past six months, but says he must raise at least $50,000 by the end of his campaign for the eighth district city council seat, which includes parts of Boston's Back Bay, Beacon Hill, Mission Hill, and Fenway neighborhoods...
...sure that this would not be his last at-bat ever, Giant Second Baseman Joe Morgan said he got to thinking of Ted Williams. (Do running backs ever break from the huddle thinking of Jim Brown?) In his final at-bat in 1960, Williams homered at Fenway Park. The Boston fans clamored for Williams to come back out of the dugout and take a final bow. He never did. After Morgan's homer that resolved everything so neatly, Little Joe took his curtain call and waved his cap to Candlestick Park...
...Once, on a fall day in 1960, he was "falling in love and away from marriage." He went down to Boston to visit a woman friend on Beacon Hill. She was not home. Disappointed, Updike wandered off and remembered that the Red Sox had a game scheduled at Fenway Park that afternoon. He went and saw Ted Williams hit a home run in his final at-bat, during what turned out to be the last game of his splendid career. Inspired, Updike wrote an instantly recognized classic of sports reporting: "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu...
...defensive halves of the innings go on without him. "Making a great play in the field always meant as much to me as a hit. I miss that," says Yaz, taking a deliberate drag from an omnipresent cigarette (he claims he never inhales). "I miss The Wall at Fenway [the 37-ft.-high leftfield monster]. I could play it in my sleep, and I do. Of course, they resurfaced it five or six years ago and ruined it. The rivets: they used to be fun. Decoying the runners into stopping at first base, when I knew that the ball...
...Kahn's meat company and delivers presentations on various meat products to buyers who have shelf space. When Yaz is on the shelf, how will he take it? "The only time I've ever reflected about it was this year at the first Oldtimers Game ever at Fenway Park. I think twelve of the oldtimers were younger than I was. You don't have time to reflect, there's so much work to do, so much mental preparation. When the time comes, I'll still be with the Red Sox some way, maybe helping...