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...pennant pandemic hits a handful of cities every autumn, but no place goes nuts in the spring like Boston does whenever the Red Sox get off to a good start. It's all about maybe. Maybe this year they can win the World Series for the first time since 1918. Throw in an early win over the profoundly reviled Yankees--or three early wins--and the city is all asweat...
...Fenway Park: Home field of the much-maligned Boston Red Sox, perennial also-rans to the New York Yankees. Go now--this baseball landmark might be gone by the time you graduate...
...Bostonians are passionate about their sports teams. We worship Larry Bird, we tolerate Drew Bledsoe and Red Sox Nation holds true to the belief that every year is "The Year." In a world where professional sports are increasingly corporate and commercialized, the Boston faithful still shed a collective tear when icons leave the city for retirement or for playoff contenders. If you must be obnoxious about your devotion to the Yankees, do so at your own risk...
...stock responses that reporters get by the dozen: "We played our game today," "We were able to execute," "We had a lot of positive team energy," or the chestnut so moldy it was banned from the Crimson sports page--"It was a real hard-fought win." As Red Sox manager Jimy Williams is fond of saying about his favorites, "Trot Nixon, he's a real baseball player." And so on ad nauseam...
...Anyone who has ventured to Fenway Park to catch a Red Sox game would have spent three hours shoulder-to-shoulder with lawyers and janitors, blacks and whites, cheering and applauding together...