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...BLOHARDS are popular. We?re ?in.? Like all things Sox, we?re riding high. I saw this at the year?s first BLOHARDS luncheon, which coincided with the Sox? second visit to the Stadium this season. My friend Jim Powers called me in advance of the date and asked if I would join the entertainment slate, which already included Jerry Trupiano interviewing Bronson Arroyo, Dr. Charles?s State of the Franchise address and, not least, Powers himself, regaling and cracking wise. ?Shaughnessy can?t make it,? Jim said. ?Hell with ?im. Your book?s better anyway...
...BLOHARDS convened, perforce, beyond the DMZ: in the New England Room of the Hotel Lexington, in the fiftieth floor dining room of the McGraw-Hill Building, even in the Combo Room of Yankee Stadium. Can you imagine 138 BLOHARDS no more than a short fly ball from Steinbrenner?s box? It happened...
...reckless bravado proved irresistible to recruits. A lonely Henry Berry, who was also at the Yale Club lunch with myself and Powers that afternoon in ?85, had been riding a late train to his home in Darien, Connecticut, one night many years ago. He had just been to the Stadium, where the Red Sox had lost, naturally, to the Yankees. ?I was deep in my thoughts of despair,? Berry remembered, ?when all of a sudden, from the back of the car, I heard four or five voices raised in song.? It was the refrain of a folk song indigenous...
Farkes joined his new team just in time to catch the bus to Bruno Stadium, where Lowell was taking on the Tri-City ValleyCats, a minor league affiliate of the Houston Astros. He was barely settled before learning Spinners’ manager Luis Alicea had penciled him into the starting lineup at second base, the position where the Red Sox have told Farkes he’ll get the majority of his playing time...
...stadium was close to full, as 2,755 spectators paid for tickets at prices starting at $45. Primarily corporate-owned box seats ringed the court, which was centered in the rink...