dodgers

The single most important influence on me learning to love baseball was my grandfather. He was the first man I ever saw wrapped up in baseball games on the television, screaming obscenities at who I thought was the team he loved. He was a Red Sox fan who, in the eighty years of his life, never once saw the Boston Red Sox win the World Series. One thing I remember him telling me is that “back in the day,” the biggest rivalry in sports was not actually the Red Sox and Yankees. In fact, it was the...

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