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Rico Picardi would rather not be storing all the souvenirs so early this year, but none of the 20 people in Fenway Park yesterday seemed interested in plastic helmets, team photos or T-shirts. Especially since one long year ago yesterday Rico's concession stands did a brisk business in hotdogs, beer, and peanuts, as well as pennants, while the Red Sox won their first playoff game against Oakland...
...bright and sunny day, with a slight breeze providing the autumnal tinge, reminded a few in Fenway that baseball's playoffs were about to begin. It was a beautiful day for a ballgame, but the lights were out under the grandstand and the food and drink were gone...
This October Fenway won't see any crowds of 34,000. Nor will it see any baseball. For the next couple of weeks work crews will be replacing sod and seats. The screen over the Green Monster will come down, and then they'll move inside to paint. By November there will be only six people in Fenway Monday through Friday, and it will stay that way until March 1, when more crews will return to prepare the little ball park for a season with much less promise than the one they're seeing off this week...
...Inside Fenway Joe Mooney, head of maintenance, directed a crew of three tearing up a block of seats behind the third base dugout, and chased reporters and a photographer off the field...
This is a serious business, this matter of voting. I mean it's one thing to punch those Gillette computer cards when you're already half-cocked in the Fenway bleachers, because it doesn't really matter if Fred Stanley or Steve Dillard is starting American League shortstop in the All-Star game...