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...there’s such a thing as an epicenter of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry, it would probably be located by the wall in right field of Fenway Park. That corner has seen it all in the last few years—from the notorious confrontation between Jeff Nelson and a groundskeeper in game 3 of the 2003 ALCS, to Bill Mueller’s walk-off homer in the A-Rod vs. Varitek brawl game, to David Ortiz’s extra-inning blast in game 4 of last year’s ALCS...
Silvera’s words, spoken the day before the 2005 season kicked off, proved prophetic last Thursday night, when a semi-malicious Red Sox fan—and now-former season ticket holder—Christopher House hit Gary Sheffield in the mouth as he was chasing Jason Varitek’s eighth-inning triple, leading to a punch from Sheffield and an emptying of the New York bullpen...
Rose's earliest playmate in suburban Cincinnati, Eddie Brinkman, "the Babe Ruth of our high school," made it to the major leagues for 15 distinguished seasons and retired ten years ago. "At seven and eight Pete was really a little guy," recalls Brinkman, now a White Sox coach. "I'd pitch and he'd catch, and when the hitter swung and missed, Pete would stick the ball up in their face and say, 'Hey, batter, batter, batter.' " Pete was a banker's son, though his father was more famous for playing halfback with the semipro Cincinnati Bengals...
Oddly, though, his richest memory is of a losing game, the sixth of the seven with the Boston Red Sox in the 1975 World Series. "That game was 3-0, 3-3, 6-3, 6-6 and finally 7-6 for the Red Sox. I turned to their catcher, Carlton Fisk, and said, 'Ain't it great just to be playing a game like this?' That's a particular moment for me, but as I look back, it seems that all of the great moments are from World Series and playoffs. Winning baseball games has meant the most...
...province of just 17 men, now including Seaver, 40. Leading up to the moment, he acted cool and professional. Only afterward would he admit, "It was like I was pitching my first major league game." The morning before, he was sitting beside his father Charles in the Chicago White Sox dugout at Yankee Stadium, just as so many years earlier, like so many sons and fathers, they must have sat together in ball parks. Reversing and updating the dialogue, Seaver said, "Look over at the batting cage, dad. There's Yogi Berra...