Word: tours
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...Fenway Park tour guide spouting trivia and anecdotes about the U.S.’s oldest ballpark for hundreds of visitors a day, I am feeding my inner fan’s appetite for insider access. Many fans listening to the park’s history are amazed at my luck: I get paid to hang around the very ballpark where the Red Sox have been pitching, homering, and base stealing their way into baseball history and mythology since...
...often do fans pause to consider if the baseball business refashions the fan mentality? Admittedly, whenever I measure the success of a tour by the amount of tips I receive or laughs a Yankees joke gets, my personal enthusiasm can wane. Among fans I meet, some lament rising ticket costs or the prominence of advertising but also accept that only an efficiently managed, shrewd business can generate revenue. As ballpark operations and the lucrative salaries are staples of the game, the thrill of witnessing a Manny Ramirez homer over the light-towers or a ninth-inning rally must sometimes strike...
...among all of these considerations stands Fenway Park covered in fence green and contained within its irregular dimensions. Apart from these physical definitions, the most memorable fans on my tour are the ones that value the park more than the players, even if it is the players that draw them there in the first place.. The ballpark’s beauty is truly appreciated through the eyes of a seven-year-old who dashes into the grandstands for the first time, absorbing the enormity of the left-field “Green Monster,” and obsessively staring...
...powerful way to mention that the universal health care he proposes has a guaranteed dental benefit. Edwards talked about him because Lowe is the kind of person he knew growing up in the Carolinas, and his story made a powerful connection. This was the day the Edwards poverty tour rolled into John Edwards's own part of the country, and surrounded by working people the candidate caught fire on their behalf. "James told us how grateful he was to be able to talk - something he has spent almost all his life not being able to do," Edwards said in Prestonburg...
Edwards' populism was heating up - and threatening to boil over. Though he had sometimes seemed distracted on this tour, as if holding something back during so many sessions with so many needy people, his passion had been building since the night before in Pittsburgh, as he weaved stories from the past two days into his remarks and brought into sharp focus the themes of his poverty tour: That it is wrong for millions of Americans to have no medical care. That it is wrong for millions of Americans to work full time yet live in poverty. And on Wednesday...