Veteran baseball writer Dick Trust reminds us that there was a day when a teenage fan could form a relationship with a major league player and even be invited into the clubhouse! Pedro Ramos was a cigar-smoking Cuban right-handed pitcher with the Washington Senators when I met him in early summer 1959. After I got his autograph outside the Hotel Kenmore, it [...]
It is hard to remember when we admire a totally renovated Fenway Park today, but just 15 years ago the previous Red Sox ownership was determined to replace America’s most beloved ballpark with a new park. This feature written in 2000, by John Rouse, Ball State University professor of political science, reminds us of how close we came to losing our iconic ba [...]
Ted Lepcio graduated from Seton Hall University in June of 1951, and ten months later, after playing in only 89 minor league games, he was the starting second baseman for the Boston Red Sox on Opening Day in Washington, DC. And that game against the Washington Senators on April 15, 1952, would turn out to be one of the highlights of Ted’s ten-year MLB caree [...]