View of Fenway Park from atop ‘‘the Green Monster.’’
“The Yankees may have always had the better players, but the Red Sox always had the better writers.”
— Dan Riley, in The Red Sox Reader
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“That moment, when you first lay eyes on that field — The Monster, the triangle, the scoreboard, the light tower Big Mac bashed, the left-field grass where Ted (Williams) once roamed — it all defines to me why baseball is such a magical game”
― Jayson Stark (born 1951), American sports writer
