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...those born outside the Red Sox Nation, myself included, the hopes and dreams resting on each season appear peculiarly magnified by its residents. I was born and bred an Astros fan and National Leaguer, so the willing subjugation to the excruciating pain of being a Sox fan was a foreign concept when I arrived at Harvard four years...
Fans should consider this possibility: some players are great. In 1927, when Ruth became the first player to wallop 60 home runs, only one other major leaguer, Ruth's Yankee teammate Lou Gehrig, hit more than 30. Indeed, the Babe connected more times that year than 11 of the 15 other teams. (And what illegal substance was he on? Prohibition-era booze.) Bonds could be playing at that level. When he walks to the plate, he's not really facing the pitcher on the mound; he's facing down the legends of the game. That quest is motivation enough...
...move makes the 31 year-old DePodesta—who lettered in varsity football for three years and played one year of JV baseball while at Harvard—the third youngest general manager hired in big league history. Fellow Ivy Leaguer and Brookline native Theo Epstein was 28 when he was hired by the Boston Red Sox before the beginning of last season and Randy Smith was 29 in 1993 when he was signed by the San Diego Padres...
While Ortiz spent the majority of the year playing DH, the least valuable position in baseball, Rodriguez plays the hardest position in baseball better than any other American Leaguer. To put up monster numbers and be the best shortstop makes A-Rod the clear...
They certainly seem to suggest that this Ivy Leaguer represents real, true hope for the Broadway Blueshirts, a franchise best-known in recent years for its depressing ratio of games won per dollars spent...