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...Yankee fan. I’m telling you this in the interest of full disclosure. I go to The Stadium in June, July, and August with my friends from high school. We eat Big Mac value meals that we buy from the McDonald’s across River Ave. and sneak them deftly into the left-field bleachers. I happen to believe Derek Jeter—to the dismay of most of the readers of this column, apparently—is indeed “clutch,” and I once incurred lewd hand-gesturing from Toronto outfielder Vernon...
...fellow baseball beat writer Alex McPhillips and I got to come to this very stadium to watch Trey Hendricks ’04 and senior Mike Morgalis pitch batting practice to a then-injured, then-beloved, and then-Bostonian Nomar Garciaparra...
Last year, both rounds were played at Campanelli Stadium in Brockton after Red Sox officials claimed the days slated for the tournament had to be used to re-sod an infield damaged by a cold and rainy April. It was the first year in the history of the event that it wasn’t held at Fenway...
...This deal was sold out before the season started," Gil Bartosh, athletic director for the Midland Independent School District, was explaining the day before the game. Outside, fat drops of rain fell in sheets that turned the streets to rivers and flooded the stadium just beyond Bartosh's window. Just then a dripping grounds keeper came in to fetch a slicker. "It's gone," he said of the field. "I been out there. I got water plumb out." Bartosh canceled the junior varsity game that had been scheduled for that night, saying, "We don't want to tear...
...West Texas, like mountains or lakes or anything, and most communities are centered around their schools." When the tickets for this game went on sale, the school's booster club gobbled them up before any could be offered to the general public, which got cross. The Midland Memorial Stadium seats 10,750. Odessa has a new stadium that seats 19,500, but district rules say the game has to alternate sites each year. "When we go out of town [to play] in West Texas, we'll carry 3,000 to 7,000 with us on the road," said Bartosh...