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...behavior become so vile? Practice. In cities like Boston, New York and Philadelphia, fans are notorious for their raucous behavior. Emotions in Yankees-Red Sox games get so high that during the closing innings of the sixth game of this year's play-offs, when police had to ring the field, veteran fans scarcely batted an eye. In Philadelphia, fans frustrated by the team's awful play once famously booed Santa Claus during half time. Behavior at Eagles games got so bad that officials seven years ago set up an on-site court in Veterans Stadium--with a jail...
...Games in the late 19th century and early 20th century were filled with violence, from Ty Cobb barreling into second base with spikes flying to crowds storming the field. Still, fans pretty much calmed down until fairly recent times. In a 2002 game between the Chicago White Sox and the Kansas City Royals, a father-son combo leaped out of the Comiskey Park stands and for no apparent reason attacked Kansas City first-base coach Tom Gamboa. This year, another fan at Comiskey tried to tackle umpire Laz Diaz. "There is no question--you can ask any coach...
...spending a significant portion of his income," he says. "And the most visible thing he sees is that his money is going to the salaries of these players." Stern calls that ridiculous, arguing that fans still consider athletes their heroes. (Just look at this year's Boston Red Sox.) "Nobody is saying Shaq [O'Neal] and Kevin Garnett don't deserve the salaries they get," he says. "Because they are MVP candidates, and they never...
...least some historical weight attached. The purported importance was reinforced by the accoutrements surrounding the show: between the $200 tickets being scalped, hawkers surrounding the venue and endless line of fans stretching far down Lansdowne St., the approach to the club felt more like going to a Sox game than to a concert. Also unusual was the mostly 30-something crowd, composed primarily of yuppies fondly remembering their dormitory days rather than the normal college-age scenesters. With the commercial flurry outside and the relative senescence of the audience (to say nothing of the band itself), passersby could easily have...
...always been amazed by how sports fans allow themselves to have such selective memories. Many of my fellow Red Sox fans have been calling me in the last day or two to express anger over Martinez’s defection to New York. Yet I choose not to remember those times...