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Would you go with Klimkiewicz, as the New England Intercollegiate Coaches Association did when it quietly named the third baseman a third-team Division I All-Star and an alternate to play in its All-Star Game last week at Fenway Park? Would you go with the guy who battled the lingering effects of an ACL tear but still knocked in a team-high 33 runs? Would you go with the power presence who stepped up the most when the Crimson’s best player, junior Trey Hendricks, went down after knee surgery? The guy who hit seven homers...
Nicholas Z. Topjian ’03 has spent about three-quarters of his life trying to get to Fenway Park. Raised by a New Jersey family of diehard New York Mets fans, Topjian is still bitter about his parents’ decision to take his older sister to Fenway for two games of the 1986 Mets-Boston Red Sox series and leave him behind. “I was crying that she went and I didn’t,” he recalls. “I used to be a huge Mets fan. Every Saturday...
Ever since then, Topjian has suffered his own private version of the Red Sox legendary curse. “There were a bunch of times I was planning on going [to Fenway],” he says, “but something always fell through.” Most recently, he tried and failed to score a pair of the first come, first served senior class tickets for the Red Sox-Yankees series in mid-May at Fenway...
...unlike the hapless BoSox, still struggling for their first World Series victory since selling Babe Ruth after their 1918 championship, Topjian found a way to Fenway. Despite overcast skies and a light drizzle, FM escorted Topjian and his language exchange partner, a 39-year-old Japanese professor named Yutaka Suga, to Fenway Park for the May 24 Sox-Cleveland Indians matchup...
...food vendor, finds us behind the BoSox bullpen. Clad in a yellow apron and matching Boston hat, Roma-Agvanian gives Topjian and FM a pound and looks awkwardly at Suga, who offers a pound but receives a handshake. Roma-Agvanian says he has worked over 300 games at Fenway and boasts of the peanut-tossing arm he has developed. “I’ll hit you 50 rows up,” he says...