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During the early days of September 1999, my first few days in Cambridge, the Red Sox and the Yankees were heatedly engaged in the playoffs. I was innocently sauntering along Mass. Ave. wearing my tattered Yankee hat when a man actually jumped out of his truck, mid-traffic, to teach me a crucial Boston lesson...
...good. Take that hat off, whatsa matter with you?” he yelled in a thick Southie accent...
Still, it took a fateful bad hair day and an unclaimed Red Sox hat hanging in the Crimson newsroom to truly cement my conversion to the Red Sox faith. I put the hat on, announcing to any of its potential owners on the Crimson list-serve that it was only because of a bad case of the frizzies, not Red Sox love, that I would be forced to wear the colors of this godforsaken team...
...stepping onto the streets of Cambridge with a Sox hat made me belong to Massachusetts more than anything else I’ve done in the four years I’ve been here. I got compliments from the grumpy homeless man in front of 7-11 and nods, even half smiles, from people I passed on the sidewalk. And the countless Sox hats I see each day speak to a brand of people united by faith that the losers will one day triumph. The hat fit perfectly, and seemed like it was meant to be worn on my head...
Shaughnessy stole the show in her final home game, netting the game winner as part of a hat trick that extended her goal-scoring streak to six games. She also added an assist...