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...best place to learn this and other regional truths is the bleachers at Fenway Park, where I attended my first lesson in the year of the great pennant race. Detroit--hopeless, out of it, grungy--was in town, and the game, like every game that fall, meant everything...
...real adventures are to be had in center, a remnant of the days when ball parks didn't all come from the Riverfront-Three River cookie cutter. Compared to left field, center in Fenway is the Wild West, a vast (almost 430 ft. to straight away center) and mysterious (a high wall that tapers down to the tiny bullpen barrier) piece of real estate. But Lynn studied it and had become its master. (If you're unimpressed, think about how many great centerfielders the Sox have had over the years. Not many.) After completing his fifth year in centerfield...
Detroit did get the hit, and Fenway sagged as the ball rolled slowly out to centerfield. The centerfielder charged the ball, put down his right hand, scooped up the ball, rocked it back into his left hand and threw, all without breaking stride...
...belonged in Fenway's centerfield. Those of us who grew up outside commuting distance from Boston, didn't hear much about centerfield in that ballpark. Leftfield, with its little wall, gets all the press. It's called the "Green Monster," which is a terrible misnomer; every batter who has looked north from home plate at Fenways views the "Monster" as the best friend he could ever have, a good buddy who turns pop ups into runs batted in. The Green Monster is a tourist trap...
...Lynn will make only occasional appearances in Fenway's centerfield from now on, after having signed a four-year contract with the California Angels. No is suprised at the deal. He was either a free agent or about to become one, and the Red Sox seemed unable or unwilling to sign him. The free agent system makes perfect legal and moral sense; no business enterprise, a team or a plantation, should ever...