Tag: Boston Red Sox

• 100 Wins

  Tonight my hometown team, the Boston Red Sox, reached 100 wins for the first time since 1946 – with 16 left to play.  It brought to mind one of my favorite books about Boston, which is Howard Bryant’s Shut Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston.  One of the most interesting things in…

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  September 13, 2018

  Sports

  Alex Cora, Baseball, Bonafide Rojas, Boston Red Sox, Curse of the Bambino, Dan Duquette, Dan Shaughnessy, David Price, Empire’s Workshop, Greg Grandin, Howard Bryant, Manny Ramirez, Mookie Betts, Naomi Klein, Notes On The Return To The Island, Pedro Martinez, Puerto Rico, Race, Shut Out, Sports, The Yawkey Family, War Against All Puerto Ricans

• We Talk About You When You Leave

  A guy walks into a hotel restaurant bar in Boston’s Back Bay on an October night in 2003.  The staff politely inform him that it is closing time, but that he may order from the full menu and have room service bring his order to his suite.  The expensively dressed “gentleman” insists that he be…

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  October 28, 2012

  Sports, Wisecracks

  Boston Red Sox, Cheapskates, Hall of Shame, Narcissism, Sports, Tim McCarver