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Taking the pulse of Red Sox Nation with Harvey Frommer
The Boston Globe best selling author takes time out of his busy schedule to talk Red Sox collapse, possible realignment, the dominance of Justin Verlander, why Mariano Rivera is NOT the most dominant pitcher of his generation, and who he’s pegging as the team to beat come October. Plus who would he rather have if [...]
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JSB Exclusive: Our interview with Harvey Frommer (The Audio)
The esteemed baseball historian and author of the new book, Remembering Fenway talks about switching sides, the effects of free agency, and Nuns Day, amongst others. A fascinating conversation to commemorate MLB’s 2011 opening day.
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Harvey Frommer has written 41 sports books and knows baseball like the back of his hand. In 2008 he wrote [...]
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ERays the Collapse: Tampa Bay does it!
The party’s not over yet for Tampa Bay’s improbable, unbelievable rise from worst to first in the American League
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Contact Disney, start sending them the scripts. This is officially a Hollywood story.
The Tampa Bay Rays knocked out the champs, and now they’re four wins away from being the champs.
Ten years of futility? [...]
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Eleventh Heaven
Rays win wild game two 9-8 in 11 crazy innings to tie their ALCS with Boston 1-1
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Fans were sleeping. Heads were slouched, yawns aplenty. On the surface, this didn’t look like the closing moments of a crucial game two. It looked more like the 2008 All Star Game, that [...]
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HooRAY for Tampa Bay
The Rays roll right into the ALCS with an impressive series victory over the White Sox, and guess what? They just might go all the way
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Goodbye laughingstock, hello final four.
If there was ever a doubt that the Tampa Bay Rays were for real, even as we entered the post-season, those doubts have [...]
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We’re going sweeping!
Three days into the playoffs, and we’re possibly looking at an astonishing four sweeps
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The only thing more frustrating then the start of these 2008 MLB playoffs is the bombardment of annoying Frank TV ads that we the sports fan have to suffer through every other commercial. O yeah, there’s also been the stunningly boring [...]
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Hey Baseball! We didn’t forget about you
Some wild stuff going on in the Big Leagues of late as we wind down an exciting season
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It’s the only sport for months, and then football comes along and it gets buried. The excitement wavers. The anticipation dies down. It’s only natural for there to be a drop-off in concentration, [...]
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BoSox and Rays ready to rumble in the (air conditioned) jungle
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Boston-based opinion will all the subtlety of a sledgehammer
It’s the eve of the biggest series in the history of Tropicana Field and the whole town is, well, basically going crazy for the Rays.
Except for the approximately 1 billion transplanted New Englanders who live here, myself included.
For us exPats we’re caught in the crossfire, torn [...]
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