MLB’s Top 5 Oldest Venues
We play it as children, we watch and listen to it as grownups, and we pass on our enthusiasm for baseball to future generations. Of course, baseball is a family tradition in the United States. This game is inextricably linked to us on a personal level, but you might not understand just how much is […]
Red Sox Flashback: The First World Championship
With the Sox on the cusp of winning another World Series, with fans all over New England savoring the time, a look back to 1912 provides a marvelous historical treat. Business in Boston virtually shut down on September 23,1912 as 100‚000 cheered the Red Sox returning from a western trip by train into South Station. […]
YAZ, SOX, OCTOBER
Another October, another post-season, another rush by teams to win the World Series. So many have October baseball memories. LENNY MEGLIOLA: For Tom Yawkey, Yastrzemski was almost like an adopted son. And Yaz took advantage of that. He was, after all, the best player on the team. He had a director’s chair in the Red […]
Fenway Flashback
The glory days are back at the Fens as the 2018 season heads down the home stretch. There is a lot of excitement about the real possibility of another world championship for the Sox. Royal and loyal rooters, though, still have in their memory bank images of a sad long ago time when life at […]
FENWAY PARK FLASHBACK
The joy and passion and full houses and winning ways now on parade at Fenway Park all are a sharp contrast to the way things once were at the little ballpark in most of the 1960s. There are still those around who recall that time, some with mixed emotions. Sam Mele: I came into Fenway […]
Remembering Ted Williams
He was called “the Splendid Splinter,” “the Kid,” “Teddy Ballgame” and other unmentionable names. But Ted Williams was always something else. There was the love-hate affair fans at Fenway Park had with Ted Williams. He dropped a fly ball in the first game of a doubleheader. Raucous razzing followed. In the second game, a ball […]
FLASHBACK: First Opening Day at Fenway Park
By Harvey Frommer It was damp and chilly throughout New England for most of the spring of 1912, and in Boston, it took a few tries before baseball at a brand new ballpark could be played in decent weather. On April 9th, the Red Sox and Harvard’s baseball team met in an exhibition game in […]
Remembering Tom Yawkey
With the news out everywhere that the Boston Red Sox have filed a petition with the city of Boston to rename Yawkey Way, a road outside Fenway Park named after Tom Yawkey, who reportedly resisted integration efforts in the late 1940s and early 1950s. The goal is to restore the original name of the street, Jersey […]
BoSox Sidebars: Spring Training, “The Kid,” Tom Yawkey & more
With the Super Bowl behind us thoughts turn in New England to perhaps the area’s most beloved sports team –the Boston Red Sox. Herewith for your reading pleasure, snippets about the Old Towne Team. Enjoy. Ted Williams and Yogi Berra MEL PARNELL: I was 25-years old in 1947 when I went to spring […]
YANKEE QUIZ, PART III
By Harvey Frommer Welcome to 2018 and by popular demand, the third in the series of teasing, tantalizing, tough questions about the New York Yankees. Enjoy. And reminder, no peeking. If you get half the answers correct you are an All Star. Who founded “Yankeeland Farm” in Frederick, Maryland after his playing career […]
Book Review: Murder at Fenway Park
Murder and baseball? As long as it’s fiction, those are two of my favorite things in one (certainly never OK with actual murder), so this reviewer was expecting to be entertained when he picked up Murder at Fenway Park by Troy Soos. Hailed as “A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery” on the front cover, the work […]
Dog Days at Fenway Park
With the crowds having fun at the hub in Boston, with the team gearing up to go deep this October, with a roster loaded with talent and more on the way, a flashback to Sox in the Sixties is almost like culture shock. September 28th, 1960, Red Sox vs. Orioles. Overcast, dank, chilly the final […]
4 Front Offices That Will Make a Lot of Moves This Baseball Offseason
The baseball offseason is an exciting time for fans of strategy. This is the time of year when every baseball front office is trying to outsmart the others, and that can make for a very unique and entertaining kind of theater. This year promises to be especially interesting, because a large number of front offices […]
What Dave Dombroski Needs to do to Fix the Boston Red Sox
Ben Cherington had a heck of a ride as GM of the Boston Red Sox. He came into an organization that was in shambles in 2011, acquiesced when ownership insisted on hiring Bobby Valentine to replace fired manager Terry Francona, booted Valentine after a horrific 2012 season, set out to rebuild the team in 2013, […]
The Greatest Historical MLB Second-Half Comebacks
Have no fear, Atlanta Braves. No need to worry, Seattle Mariners. There is plenty of time to come back and make the playoffs. You want proof? As the second half of the baseball season begins, here is just a sampling of some teams that overcame large deficits to get into the postseason. 1951 New York […]
A Little Fenway Park in Pennsylvania
(Reading, PA) – Berkshire Baseball has been in the midst of a $7 million facelift of the Berks County Youth Recreation Facility, a 22 year old, 118 acre youth sports complex in which the non-profit organization entered into a 20-year lease with the County of Berks at the beginning of 2013. The organization has already […]
2011 WEEI/NESN Jimmy Fund Radio-Telethon
Join me in raising the awareness to the wonderful work of The Jimmy Fund, the Boston Red Sox official charity for the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The Jimmy Fund was founded in 1948 and made popular by the generosity and support of the late great Red Sox LF Ted Williams. To learn more about The Jimmy Fund, click HERE. The main […]
An Interview with the Hall of Fame President
Hey baseball fans! I have another interview for you! This time, I interviewed National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum President Jeff Idelson! I talked to him a couple of days ago and he was a very nice and friendly guy. Click here to see the Hall of Fame’s website. Anyway, let me tell you a little […]
Before the Monster Seats…
Celebrating 100 Years of Fenway Park From One Fan’s Perspective: A Retrospective Look Editor’s note: This was a college paper written by the author (aka “Pete’s Rose”…aka my wife) during either her junior or senior year in college (either 1996 or 1997). It was transcribed by our 2nd oldest daughter, Alicia Rose, who is now […]
Art Gallery Salutes Fenway Park
A multi-media salute to Fenway Park, the Boston Red Sox and baseball is on display at the Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery in Boston. More than 30 artists and collectors, most from New England, provided oilpaintings, quilts, watercolors, drawings and cartoons for “Take Me Out To The Ballgame: Celebrating Fenway@100.” The exhibit features black-and-white […]
One Wild Night: Reflections Upon the Wild Card Eve of 2011
By John H. Ritter Oh, what a night. Late September back in oh-one-one (the song will go), what a day and what a night. How many of us die-hard baseball fans can recall a day more baseball-packed than Wednesday, Sept. 28, 2011, when four teams went into four different games, tied for the chance to […]
Fantasy Baseball Players to Consider Dropping for 2012 Keeper Leagues
With the fantasy baseball playoffs looming and the end of the 2011 baseball season in sight, as afantasy owner you will no doubt be looking to make some roster decisions in regard to the players you will consider keeping and those which you will release. When deciding who qualifies as a fantasy baseball keeper for 2012 and who doesn’t, you might want […]
Remembering Fenway Park, A Book Review
When Harvey Frommer set out to write the history of Fenway Park, he no doubt knew he had his work cut out for him. This is not a book where if the author just muddled through their research, they could get away with it as its focus is one of the most famous meccas of […]
SABR Day 2011
So, some of you may already be planning to attend your local SABR Day event, others may want to, but have prior engagements that they cannot break, while even others are (right now) asking just what in the world is SABR anyway?! No, it is not a group of sabermetricians; although that’s what I mistakenly […]
REMEMBERING FENWAY PARK: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox
Click this Link to Buy “Remembering Fenway Park” THE BABE. THE KID. THE CURSE. THE MONSTER. A CENTURY OF STORIES. REMEMBERING FENWAY PARK: AN ORAL AND NARRATIVE HISTORY OF THE HOME OF THE BOSTON RED SOX Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls.Welcome to Fenway Park. Six days after the Titanic sank in the […]
Red Sox OF Daniel Nava: How He Made It To The Show
The story of how Red Sox OF Daniel Nava (currently in AAA Pawtucket, probably until September or another injury hits the team) is an interesting one. It’s not your typical story of your average major league prospect or even your typical minor leaguer. Here’s his story, from his own lips, brought to you from an […]
The Eclectic Flavors of BallPark Food in Japan
Take me out to the ballgame. Take me out to the crowd. Buy me some squid legs and takoyaki. When we see the Carp, we’ll have okonomiyaki. Squid legs? Tako what? What about peanuts and Cracker Jack? We’re talking baseball, but Japanese baseball, and the food at ballparks in Japan is a force to be […]
2010 Red Sox Charity Wines Launch Party
Yesterday I was fortunate enough to be invited to the launch party of Zinfandellsbury (a Red Zinfandel from Ellsbury) and Chardon-K (a Chardonnay from Beckett) which are charity wines from Longball Cellars. If you are not familiar with the Red Sox charity wines the players do not profit a single dime; rather, 100% of their […]
What People Are Saying About Braden’s Perfect Mother’s Day
A Memorable Mother’s Day 2010 As a reminder, Dallas Braden did this against the major league’s hottest team, the Tampa Bay Rays who hold the best record in all of baseball at this point in the season! Here’s what former A’s teammate Dana Eveland had to say about his friend’s perfect game, “I got to […]
Baseball News, Tweets & More
Image by mikeleeorg via Flickr Friday Afternoon Edition Editor’s Note: Sorry for the absence of this segment as of late. We will try to keep this going moving forward if not every weekday, at least 3 times a week. @IanMBrowne: Red Sox just announced they will have a Nomar day at Fenway next Wednesay, May […]
