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...BLOHARDS had an active and exciting day at Fenway, and so did the Red Sox. The Hose, who were showing signs of life in the mid-1980s-showing signs of being the team they would be right through the ?90s-eventually hosed the Yanks 9-2, and the game immediately became part of BLOHARDS lore. Attendance at this opener became something that would earn you points at future club functions...
...Happily, very happily, the BLOHARDS headed back to their bus. They settled into their seats, cracked open ?Gansetts and started chattering away in BLOHARDS fashion. ?Surely Oil Can Boyd will win 20 games this season, and surely the Sox will score 900 runs . . . Surely we?ll finish ahead of the Yanks, surely we?ll win the pennant . . .Surely we?ll be World Champions, just like we were only yesterday, in 1918 . . .? One by one, BLOHARDS fells asleep. When they awoke, they were back in New York, exiles again, forced anew to take what nourishment they might from those unreasonable dreams...
...have chanced upon Our Red Sox in the past few months might have realized, parts of the above history are cribbed from my book. Of course, as any of you who know anything about the business I?m in are well aware, double-dipping is a time-honored journalistic tradition...
Summers was booed by Red Sox fans as he walked out to the mound, although their jeers seemed to indicate a lack of confidence in the University more than in its president. And, for what it’s worth, the crowd at Fenway also booed the cast of “Queer Eye for the Straight Guy” when they threw out the first pitch in June...
Summers, who was invited to throw out the first pitch as recognition for Harvard’s work with the BELL Foundation, which provides educational opportunities to low-income children, donned a Red Sox cap for the occasion. In an interview, though, he confessed he still harbors a bit of allegiance to the Philadelphia Phillies, his childhood favorite, and the Baltimore Orioles, his team of choice while in Washington, D.C., during the 1990s...