One morning around the middle of next month, I will take a sip of coffee and casually ask my wife if she knows what’s happening on that particular day. She’ll look up from the morning paper, think just for a moment, and say, “Pitchers and catchers report.” After 38 years, she knows that, for me,…
I spent the better part of this evening in Safeco Field, home of the Seattle Mariners. Tonight was the first of three games I’ll be attending between the Mariners and the Boston Red Sox, the team I have been following for many decades. There is no better venue for a ballgame than Fenway Park in…
Boston is a comfortable city. A big city that doesn’t feel like a big city. I have settled in at the brownstone B&B on Bay State Road where I usually stay. It’s an easy walk from here to Fenway Park and to “The T”, which is what Bostonians call their transit system. Just up the…
OK, this is just for fun. It’s a Boston Globe photo taken during one of the ballgames at Fenway Park this year. I just can’t bring myself to dump it. Click on the photo to blow it up, then check out the faces of the people a split second before a foul ball (center, top)…