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...roommates and I found unlikely inspiration late one night sophomore year, while sitting on a wooden bench in the park outside Peet’s Coffee. As we passed around a pint of Ben & Jerry’s, we began to cross and uncross our legs in unison. Passersby eyed us curiously as we crossed and uncrossed with theatrical flourish and we saw the hint of potential in their stares...
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...
...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...
...University of Tokyo visiting Harvard as a Yenching Visiting Scholar, Suga spends at least as much time watching the game through his camera lens as he does with his own eyes—snapping not only practically every at-bat of the game but also every section of the park, the mandatory group picture taken by our next-seat neighbors and even the outfield video screen as it displays the words to “God Bless America” during the seventh-inning stretch...
When the Times went on strike for three months starting in August 1978, he went to Belmont Park every day to study the art of handicapping...