by jpolman | Nov 1, 2014 | Uncategorized
I miss baseball already. I certainly already miss this year’s postseason, which in my opinion was the most thrilling and eventful one we’ve had since 1986. The Red Sox weren’t involved this time, of course, but I was fine with that, because neither...
by jpolman | Aug 23, 2014 | 2014 Boston Red Sox, Allen Webster, Boston Red Sox, Brock Holt, Christian Vazquez, Dustin Pedroia, Fenway Park, Roger Clemens, Scott Feldman
Fifty-one years ago, I went to my first Red Sox game. Many presidents, fashions and shortstops later, it’s still nice to visit home again… We boarded the Green Line at the Arlington Station a couple Thursdays ago, 90 minutes before a 7:00 game with...
by jpolman | Jul 19, 2014 | Boston Red Sox, Carl Yastrzemski, Dan Shaughnessy, Peter Gammons, Ted Williams
With endless apologies to my wife, my bookcase at home is spilling over with baseball. The top shelf? Nothing but Red Sox books. And it being deep summer and because nothing is better than reading a baseball book in a saggy hammock or on a toasty beach with a salty...
by jpolman | Apr 11, 2014 | Boston Red Sox
So I’m kicking back on my iMac the other day, exploring a treasure trove of old MLB playoff games recently uploaded to YouTube. Game One of the 1990 ALCS between Oakland and the Red Sox looks intriguing, with Dave Stewart facing off at Fenway against Roger Clemens. It...
by jpolman | Feb 6, 2014 | Boston Red Sox, Joe DiMaggio, John-Henry Williams, Ted Williams
I just missed him. Ted Williams hit his famous last at bat home run on September 28, 1960, three years before I began following the Red Sox. He played at Fenway in a 1982 Old Timer’s Game but I can’t find footage of that anywhere. Yaz was certainly a fine...
