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...they begin to feign an interest in baseball just as the local team wraps up its season. No matter if they are from Baltimore or Bakersfield, Bucharest or Beirut, many Harvard students—for a month at least in early autumn—are rabid Red Sox fans...
...Sox began the 2008 season by flying halfway around the world to play a team from across the country, and they won in extra innings. Now that is a dramatic story-book opening to a “title defense.”For the Harvard softball team, things were a little different. The weekend got off to a bad start when Saturday’s double header against Cornell was postponed because of bad weather, and it only got worse when the Crimson (7-14, 0-2 Ivy) dropped its first two games of the year to Princeton...
...York and Boston may be located in the Northeast, but together they invariably suck up all the oxygen of the baseball world. Sure, Boston is the world champ, and we know that the Red Sox, New York Yankees and New York Mets have baseball's highest payrolls. But every spring, do we have to be subjected to all the talk about these teams? (I'm sick of it, and I'm a Mets...
Whom would you rather beat in the World Series, the Red Sox or the Yankees? Stuart Oldham, LOS ANGELES...
...Americans swept into Japan and swept out. Two capacity games on two consecutive nights (44,628 on Tuesday and 44,735 on Wednesday) thrilled the baseball-mad locals as the Boston Red Sox and the Oakland A's split their season openers in Tokyo, the third time Major League Baseball (MLB), the U.S. sports association, has staged such an event in the last eight years. When the second game (which the A's took 5-1) was over at 9:51 p.m., the two teams, barely recovered from jet lag from the trip over, hopped a bus for nearby Haneda...