Dustin Pedroia
Jon Lester
The Kid
Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr, and Dom DiMaggio. ed Sox teammates who remained friends for more than sixty years. Their friendship, remembered in David Halberstam’s The Teammates, now stands outside Fenway Park in bronze. I had read the book, but because it was still relatively new, I never expected to find a statue of them there.
Boston Strong and 617 on the jersey commemorate the victims and the city’s resilience after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing. 617 is Boston’s area code.
Green Monster
Green Monster
One red seat among a sea of green, marking where Ted Williams’ legendary 502-foot home run landed in 1946—the longest ever recorded at Fenway Park.
Ellsbury, Peddy, Big Papi, and
One summer day in 2004, in a post office somewhere in New York, I heard that Garciaparra had been traded. It was expected, but it still felt like the end of the first chapter of the team I had loved since the late ’90s.
46, 67, 75, 86
The Kid.
2004, 2007, 2013.