I managed to cancel most of the reservations for transportation, lodging and entertainment made for the trip I had scheduled for this month. In fact today—I’m writing this on Friday,...

By a happy coincidence, my return from the April meeting of the Rail Passengers Association in Washington takes me to Oakland where the Boston Red Sox will be playing the...

There’s a certain infallible harbinger of Spring in New England that isn’t a groundhog or a robin. It’s a truck. Specifically, it’s a huge, half-a-block-long semi-trailer truck. It’s Truck Day...

Regulars here know that I have followed the Boston Red Sox since I was a kid. I saw my first Red Sox game at Fenway Park on May 25, 1946....