When my daughter was about nine, we took a 10-day trip together — just the two of us. It was designed to let her sample two of my great passions in life: train travel and the Boston Red Sox. The itinerary included Oakland, Seattle and Chicago, ending up in Boston where we saw the Red…
I’m in Seattle now, to see three games between the Red Sox and the Seattle Mariners and to enjoy this marvelous city (as long as it’s not raining, which, according to the locals, narrows things down to June, July and August). In contrast to the dismal experience that is the Oakland Coliseum, Safeco Field where…
The attempt to manufacture excitement is an unfortunate trend in major league baseball. In big league ballparks, monstrous electronic scoreboards suddenly light up and instruct fans to MAKE NOISE!!!!! as though we’re all a bunch or morons with no clue as to what’s happening on the field. In many ballparks, especially in Anaheim, ovine fans…
Today is the day that pitchers and catchers report to the Red Sox spring training complex in Fort Myers, Florida. You’ll forgive me if today I digress from thoughts of trains and railroads and transportation for today. Baseball fans, and especially those of us who follow the Boston Red Sox, have been waiting for this…