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...played Saturday night, and I'm going to be there...Thoughts while sleeping: ZZZZZZ...Oh yeah, the Red Sox aren't at home this weekend because they're on the West coast...None of the games are going to be televised, so you'll have to catch the Bosox on the radio, WMEX...
...holding a marathon like the one the Boston Symphony/Boston Pops is holding this weekend. What a dream-come-true that would be for George Plimpton '48, a Harvard Poonie and pro-athlete aspirant, if he were in town. Four days of around-the-clock broadcasts of the most stupendous Bosox games of all time at Plimpton's request. Watching the game from the bullpen. Meetings with his idols in the clubhouse. My own pulse accelerates at the thought of what such an opportunity would do to the pulse rate of the little freckled kid next door with the mustard-stained...
Plimpton trained, sweated, and refined his talents until he became deft enough to do each sport with the pros. If he were around today, for his fictional Bosox marathon, it would have been so much less painful. For a minimal charitable pledge to help the team, he could have been out in Fenway Park, batting grounders to Carl Yasztremski. If not like the pros, he could have won a rare opportunity to play with them...
...that is where the Red Sox and congratulations come in. For the second straight season the Red Sox have demonstrated the uncertainties in sport. In that endless summer of 1975, when even the Fenway pigeons seemed to sing, the Bosox defied the critics who had put them behind Baltimore and New York in their division, who had forecast the A's in three, and the Big Red Machine to roll in four...
Monday night marks the renewal of hostilities between the Bosox and the New York Yankees...