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Spring in Boston means one thing: baseball season. For non-natives, the Red Sox game ritual is a pre-graduation rite of passage. Don’t know how it works? Here’s a guide for Fenway Park first-timers who want to avoid looking like a pink hat (in baseball speak: a fair-weather poser Sox fan). First of all, anyone who goes to a game at Fenway should know some basic Sox history. Founded in 1901, the Boston Red Sox enjoyed several World Series Titles during their early years. After an 86-year dry period under...

Author: By Luis Urbina, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Fenway for First-Timers | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...Harvard Square Business Association’s Jillson, who helped organize the “Great Big Green Party” that will take place this Friday in Winthrop Park to raise awareness about environmental issues, called the green movement a “daily process...

Author: By Liyun Jin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Local Stores Celebrate Earth Day | 4/22/2009 | See Source »

...colleges continue to stir international curiosity, provide spectacle and further sporting opportunities.Here at Harvard, one is afforded the unique opportunity to not only watch elite collegiate athletes participate in 41 different varsity sports, but also to experience the smoldering embers of Boston’s sporting soul. Walking through Park Street, overhearing drawling voices discussing the fortunes of the Celtics, Pats, Bruins and Sox, you are reminded how deeply interwoven sport is with the fabric of society; you are reminded how, even in the commercially driven world of American sports, the affinity connecting fan and sport is universal.Ultimately, one word...

Author: By Allen J. Padua, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: AP STYLE: Finding Comfort In USA Sports | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...Puckett=her ex-boyfriend; third base=vague; hit by pitch=hit by bus while kissing date; first base coach=guy who helps you make out; Cal Ripken, Jr.=making out with same girl 2,632 consecutive times; called third strike=leave theater, get popcorn, return, date absent; inside the park home run=artificial insemination; suicide squeeze= “DO ME OR I’LL KILL MYSELF”; Registrar Barry S. Kane=inventor of the suicide squeeze...

Author: By Daniel K Bilotti and Vincent M Chiappini, CONTRIBUTING WRITERSS | Title: Rest In Peace, Kirby Puckett | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...often obliquely - chided his successors, particularly when the Mbeki-Zuma fight was at its height. But he has also made plain that his loyalty to the ANC remains unwavering, and during the latest campaign appeared twice with Zuma at election rallies, including a final mass rally at Ellis Park Stadium in Johannesburg last Sunday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa's Election: Why It Matters | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

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