Word: topjian
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Kieran Fitzgerald ’03, Anthony J. Gabriele ’03, Samuel Graham-Felsen ’03 Christopher Roma-Agvanian ’02-’03, Aaron R.S. Rudenstine ’03, Daniel J. Stewart ’03 and Nicholas Z. Topjian...
...While Topjian hasn’t attended a Mets game in years, it’s only been a year and a half since he last saw a professional baseball game—in Japan’s Tokyodome. “Japanese baseball is so bizarre,” he says. “All the fans for one team are on one side of the stadium, just like high school. You buy your ticket and they ask if you want Red Sox or Yankees. And when your team is up, you cheer the whole inning. It?...
...come back up to the plate with Boston’s best hitter, $20 million-a-year Manny Ramirez. Topjian declares that the time is ripe for Ramirez, who was intentionally walked in the first and stroked two singles through the middle innings, to launch one out of the yard. After taking a few pitches, Ramirez clubs a no-doubt-about-it shot over the Green Monster in left, pausing to admire his handiwork before he starts to run the bases...
We’ve seen just about enough when Topjian’s roommate, Christopher Roma-Agvanian ’03, who is working the game as a food vendor, finds us behind the BoSox bullpen. Clad in a yellow apron and matching Boston hat, Roma-Agvanian gives Topjian and FM a pound and looks awkwardly at Suga, who offers a pound but receives a handshake. Roma-Agvanian says he has worked over 300 games at Fenway and boasts of the peanut-tossing arm he has developed. “I’ll hit you 50 rows...
...four of us leave the game after the seventh inning, and stop off at a memorabilia store. Topjian picks up a navy blue baseball cap with the red number “9”—Ted Williams’ jersey number—emblazoned on the front. “I was on the fence about being a Red Sox fan before the game,” Topjian says. “Now I’m converted...