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Fans live in the past. Their loyalty is built on stats and mental snapshots of games from decades before. They know, if only through oral tradition, that St. Louis won the 1946 World Series because of Boston shortstop Johnny Pesky's late throw to the plate and that in 1967 three wins by the Cards' magnificent pitcher Bob Gibson trumped the awesome batting of that sainted Sox Carl Yastrzemski. Fans on each side will surely remind themselves that those Series went the full seven, with St. Louis winning both...
...Jeter Swallows” portion of the shirt is an attack by Boston Red Sox fans on the highest-profile member of the New York Yankees, shortstop Derek Jeter...
...Farkes, the starting shortstop for Harvard’s varsity baseball team and Crimson home run record holder, is the only English major on the baseball team. Farkes, who does much of his reading on the bus to and from games (“It’s a lot more interesting than watching ‘The Rock’ or ‘Major League’ for the hundredth time,” he says) and submits many of his papers by e-mail, has found that English and baseball actually complement one another...
Morgalis is one of two Crimson players who spent the summer weighing their options before deciding to return to the team. Junior shortstop Zak Farkes seriously considered signing with the Boston Red Sox after the team selected him in the 39th round last June, but elected to return to school instead...
...full recovery should boost Farkes, who has played second base, shortstop and third base for the Crimson, back to his previous levels, making him significantly more projectable as a Major League infielder...