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If it wasn’t already, it now is plainly obvious: Fenway Park [map] is the Red Sox [team stats]’ biggest star.
To mark the occasion of its centennial anniversary, the old ballyard was feted yesterday in a pregame ceremony that hit all the appropriate notes. More than 200 former Red Sox players, managers and coaches returned. Caroline Kennedy chucked a ceremonial first pitch, just like her great-grandfather 100 years earlier. And Pedro Martinez and Kevin Millar, the free-spirited heroes of the 2004 World Series champs, led the usual sellout crowd in a grape juice toast.
Once this season ends, the Red Sox need to make a quick decision on whether to keep or fire Bobby Valentine, and if the answer is that he’s gone, they need to make an equally quick decision on who replaces him. The team can... more »
This season was the throwback. To hell with all the "ghosts" and all the fanciful guff about curses, this year — actually, this season plus the final third of the 2011 campaign — was when, out of nowhere, all the old hell... more »
After 14 years of losing, you knew it wasn't going to be easy. The Orioles wanted their playoff-clinching party to begin at Camden Yards on Sunday. And they did their part with a 6-3 win over the Boston Red Sox and their... more »
Baseball and the Red Sox have occupied a meaningful place in my life for about as long as I can remember, and it's out of tradition and habit that a season's pending end comes with a tinge of melancholy. No matter whether the... more »
On a day honoring arguably the greatest third baseman of all time — legendary Orioles Hall of Famer Brooks Robinson — the rookie phenom now patrolling the hot corner for Baltimore showed what he could do.Twenty-year-old... more »
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