Monday, October 29, 2018

To the Red Sox!


Hail to the Red Sox! The Curse of the Bambino is long gone, but is still remembered, oh yes! Not much remembered is Pumpsie Green who integrated the Sox in 1959. The Red Sox were the last pre-expansion team in the majors to integrate.
I was in Boston in June of 1990. The team was not in town, but I was able to jog around Fenway. The oldest park in the majors, Fenway Park was built in 1912. Our own Rickwood was built in 1910 and still stands.
Ted Williams still intrigues me. He once said that hitting a major league pitcher was the hardest single thing to do in all of sports. I suspect he was right. He aspired to be the greatest hitter of all-time, and he may have been, Babe Ruth notwithstanding.
HAILTO THE RED SOX!