Karl Lindholm: Fenway meditations: Impressions of a Red Sox fan

I don’t actually remember my first game. I was too young. But I can imagine it, the incomparable thrill of it, because I have been similarly affected every time I have gone to Fenway since.

Vermonter Bill Lee, the former Red Sox pitcher also known as “Spaceman,” told a story to my class at Middlebury College about throwing out a ceremonial first pitch at Fenway Park. Of course, Bill Lee threw 225 actual first pitches at Red Sox games in his … (read more)