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Today, just after 1:05 p.m., Aerosmith’s Steven Tyler will sing the national anthem before Pedro Martinez throws the first pitch of the 2002 Boston Red Sox season. In most years, the anthem would be an afterthought, a brief formality preceding each of the season’s 162 games. But last year, when baseball resumed after Sept. 11, the tension in the air during the anthem was palpable. Especially during the World Series, as military action had begun in Afghanistan, Francis Scott Key’s dramatic lyrics had renewed significance for generations of Americans...
...less than a year after the U.S. had entered World War I, 15 Red Sox players were already in the military. By the end of the war, almost 250 players were serving, and many were on the battlefield in Europe. Christy Mathewson, a Hall of Fame pitcher and manager of the Cincinnatti Reds, was one of many who enlisted in the army. Mathewson died seven years later, after developing tuberculosis from poison...
Being intimately involved with the Red Sox organization would have allowed you ultimate access to the players and coaches on the team. This clearly could have been beneficial in your handling of the Latino studies question. Who could have questioned your commitment to the program with a framed picture of you and Pedro Martinez of the Red Sox shaking hands hanging on the wall...
...give free Sox tickets to these anti-ROTC pinko-liberals...
...vain, I suppose, as I watch John Henry and that guy who invented “Third Rock from the Sun” pretend they give a damn about the Red Sox. While you were playing Red Rover during halftime of the Penn football game, pants dangling around your ankles, you could have at least tried to buy the Sox...