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One Good Baseball Memory

Posted by abohan Senin, 03 Oktober 2011 0 komentar

When you live in a lovely place like the Lakes Region, you sometimes come upon unexpected blessings... Like a friend who calls you up at 5 p.m. one September night and tells you he has two tickets to tonight's Red Sox game. You scramble over to his house and drive madly down to Derry, NH, to pick up the tickets from the friends who couldn't use them, then onto Fenway Park.

Not long afterwards, you’re both sitting in the stands, not far behind home plate, enjoying the last real "summer" night of the year: temperatures in the mid-70s, folks dressed in shorts and t-shirts, many with players’ names on the back.

And you're there to watch perhaps the only really fun moment of the Red Sox's September - veteran pitcher Tim Wakefield getting his 200th career win.

Despite the 18-6 Sox lead, most fans stay to the final out to applaud the longest-serving Red Sox player... And he seemed genuinely chocked up with emotion, expressing his gratitude at the unending applause.

By 1:30 a.m. the next day, you’re back at home and in bed – thanking God for your friend, Tim Wakefield, Fenway Park – and living in a beautiful place that’s only two hours from a couple of big league sports teams.

(Now your friend wants to go see the Boston Bruins play the Detroit Red Wings – he’s from the Midwest and a lifelong Red Wing fans – the day after Thanksgiving, and follow that up the next night with a Boston Celtics game. “It’s always been my dream to go to a Bruins and Celtics game back-to-back,” he says - The only problem being that the NBA strike is unlikely to be settled by Thanksgiving, according to the sportswriters, so the Celtics are unlikely to be playing… But that’s what you get in a Lakes Region friend – a little bit of starlight and a whole lot of joy.)

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Judul: One Good Baseball Memory
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