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...Sure,? I said. ?A great Sox. Player and manager, one of the very few uniform numbers that have been retired by the team. His number?s up there on the right-field wall with Ted?s and . . . ? I unloaded all that I knew about Cronin. ?Unfortunately, I don?t think Joe?s in the book. It doesn?t reach quite that far back...
...maple syrup and, after shopping, pointed the Honda south. I decided to take the shunpikes down to Brattleboro, hotting village after village. In funky Jamacia, Vermont, I stopped and bought the kids some maple moose pops at the general store. The longhaired kid at the cash register was talking Sox with his pal as he made change. ?I don?t think we?re gonna get there this year,? he said...
...would, but not this night, as the Sox were opposing the (now second-place) O?s down in Baltimore, while I was driving east from South Hadley through monsoon-like showers, flipping from this local station to the next on the many-hamleted Red Sox Radio Network. Finally on 495 north from Worcester I was able to lock onto the flagship station, WEEI, and I rode that home to Chelmsford. ?Home.? Well, my former home. Still Mom?s. Where I would bunk this night before tomorrow?s midday meet-and-greet at the bookstore in downtown Lowell...
...before taking a jog at dawn through the old neighborhoods-West Chelmsford, where I?d played Wiffle ball, back towards the center of town, where I?d played sandlot and then Little League. So many Red Son bumper stickers on the cars in the driveways these days, so many Sox pennants and flags hanging on the porches...
...whom I?ve been tight with since kindergarten, joined Chaz and me for a couple of rounds at a nearby Irish pub. None of us knew for sure if the Schilling thing would work, but as Bruce said: ?Spices it up.? We talked about old times, ?back when the Sox were losers,? and remarked how times change. We discussed, at some length, that morning?s bombings in London, and said the unoriginal thing: ?What a world...