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Peter Hafner is 6’5, but his lanky height only leads the eye up to what really stands out in Boston: a faithfully donned Baltimore Orioles cap, an unapologetic homage of orange and black in a city that bleeds Sox red and blue...
DIED. AL LOPEZ, 97, Hall of Fame catcher turned manager, known as El Señor for his genial, gentlemanly style; in Tampa, Fla. Few pennant victories have been sweeter than his American League wins in 1954, with the Cleveland Indians, and 1959, when he led the Chicago White Sox to their first World Series since 1919. The player whose teams so often finished second to the New York Yankees became the only manager whose teams finished ahead of them during the years...
Alan Hollinghurst does not expect to be understood. In Chicago, the previous stop on a promotional tour of his 2004 novel “The Line of Beauty,†his audience was reduced to six when the book discussion conflicted with a White Sox game. And at the outset, this final stop in Cambridge portends another embarrassing disconnect between author and reader: “a gay British guy and a straight American teenager walk into a café†(Algiers, to be precise) sounds more like a weak joke than the convening of kindred spirits...
...work of Bill James, the baseball statistician known for focusing on obscure data to evaluate talent. Both have adopted the Washington Nationals. But their deep loyalties reach beyond the Beltway--to two teams with frustrating histories. Greenspan is a New York Mets fan; Bernanke pulls for the Boston Red Sox. No doubt, more frustrations await Bernanke as he learns to mold the economy. But if he sticks to his numbers, he should do fine...
...Sox locker room moments after their victory, third baseman Joe Crede looked at a TV camera and said, "This is for you, Chicago." Since most of Chicago was already out in the streets, it's hard to know if anyone...