When Red Sox outfielder Gabe Kapler ran in from his position in right field to celebrate the World Championship after the final out in Game Four of the 2004 World Series, it seemed surreal to him. “I felt like I was in a movie,” Kapler recalled in a recent interview. “I was asking myself if it was really happening. “After a while they let my best friend o [...]
Here is a link to an ode to the 1914 Miracle Braves written by Ring Lardner. Lardner was a prolific writer, mainly about sports and especially baseball, but he also wrote about the theater and life in general. His column in the Chicago Tribune was circulated to over 100 newspapers and he also wrote the acclaimed book, You Know Me Al. Thanks to Jonathon Tho [...]
Former Red Sox closer Keith Foulke was the unsung hero of the 2004 World Series. Keith was on the mound to close out all four World Series victories, earning the win in Game One and the save in Game Four to clinch Boston’s first World Championship in 86 years. But Foulke’s postseason heroics in 2004 weren’t limited to the World Series. He pitched in two of t [...]
The annual Oldtime Baseball Game, which will be played Monday night, August 25, at St. Peter’s Field in North Cambridge, has gone national! Unless you have been living under a rock you have watched your friends, and many celebrities, pour a bucket of ice over their heads to help raise money to find a cure for ALS. This national effort, which has raised alm [...]
Boston Red Sox fans can never hear enough or read enough about their 2004 World Championship team. Veteran baseball author Saul Wisnia does a wonderful job of meeting that need with his new book MIRACLE AT FENWAY: The Inside Story of the Boston Red Sox 2004 Championship Season (St. Martin’s Press). Wisnia’s premise is that an event of this magnitude require [...]