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...measures by which each generation of Americans complains about the next. For every one of us, the day will come when we will catch ourselves reminiscing to our children--or maybe just to first-years --about the days when a T ride only cost 85 cents (and when the bleacher seats at old Fenway Park were only...
...Amount those who gave $50 for bleacher seats had to pay for a soda...
...some surprisingly good teams. Men's swimming won the Eastern championships last month, and women's soccer finished its regular season seventh in the country. Only a few of the rest of us actually make it to games, though--if you want to join a large and enthusiastic bleacher crowd, try the Big Ten. Athletes' facilities across the river are fantastic, but here in Cambridge, gyms like the MAC and the QRAC don't exactly sparkle...
...brother and I watched Larry Doby, the first black to play in the American League, repeatedly chase down baseballs of the 1949 Red Sox. During the 1950s, we ventured into Fenway Park to watch the Red Sox host the hated Yankees for 4th of July doubleheaders (bleacher seats--rather benches--were 75 cents per ticket then). For tens of millions of New Englanders, historic Fenway Park is their personal field of dreams. John Harrington, corporate executive of the current Red Sox management, wants to tear down major league baseball's historic monument to family values...
...Yankee Stadium Bleacher Creature whom I know only as Larry often wears a t-shirt that reads, "Yankee Baseball is life. The rest is just details." Apparently Mariano Rivera disagrees...