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...unlike the hapless BoSox, still struggling for their first World Series victory since selling Babe Ruth after their 1918 championship, Topjian found a way to Fenway. Despite overcast skies and a light drizzle, FM escorted Topjian and his language exchange partner, a 39-year-old Japanese professor named Yutaka Suga, to Fenway Park for the May 24 Sox-Cleveland Indians matchup...
Professor Suga, clad in a bright yellow Columbia rain jacket to shield himself from the elements, is intent on preserving the afternoon for posterity and doesn’t mind exposing his Sony digital camera to the rain. An associate professor of Asian folklore at the University of Tokyo visiting Harvard as a Yenching Visiting Scholar, Suga spends at least as much time watching the game through his camera lens as he does with his own eyes—snapping not only practically every at-bat of the game but also every section of the park, the mandatory group picture...
...Suga adds, as we join the largely inebriated crowd in singing “Take Me Out to the Ballgame,” that while the song is a fixture at Japanese games, few fans actually know the English words, and simply sing the melody with repeated use of the word...
...Suga, the tiny Japanese master hairdresser, approaches, and Tiegs bends her knees, lowering her head so that he can give it a last swipe with his brush. A small, wren-colored woman, a stylist, darts up, makes an odd little ducking gesture that may be obeisance, and slips a bracelet on the racing sloop's left arm. Photographer Seltzer, a big, bald, hard-looking man, lies on his belly, chest soothed by a pillow, and begins to talk in the style parodied in Blow-Up: "Good, good, wonderful, great...
...where would that leave Cheryl Tiegs? Unconcerned. Her too radiant health could be subdued by the greens and purples in Way Bandy's paint box. Bows and ruffles would be easy. The wind machine could be turned off. Suga could stand on his tiptoes and comb in romance. The bones, really, are quite fine. But Tiegs has had enough of the small, sealed-off world of the studios and high-fashion magazines. This fine-looking, tough-minded California lady has packed her makeup kit and her tennis racket, and taken a deep breath, and is ready to move...