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CURRENT STREET EDITION

DIG 23.05 – 4/8/21

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EVEN WITH YAWKEY BANISHED, THERE’S WORK TO DO IN RIDDING BOSTON SPORTS OF RACISM

Written by BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ Posted April 3, 2019 Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS

If Boston sports enthusiasts are angry that the city continues to be tarnished by a bad reputation for bigoted fans, perhaps their anger’s misdirected.

Filed Under: News, NEWS+OPINIONS Tagged With: Adam Jones, Albert Breer, Albert Goodwill Spalding, baseball, Boston, Boston Red Sox, Charles Ogletree, Chris Young, Colin Kaepernick, Dan Roche, Dan Sileo, Don Imus, dunkin donuts, ESPN, Evan Drellich, fenway park, Gerry Callahan, Glenn Ordway, Howard Bryant, Jackie BradleyJr., Jerry Remy, Jim Rice, John Dennis, Larry Lucchino, MBTA, Michael Che, Minihane, Mookie Betts, NESN, Orioles, Red Sox, Sports Hub, Yawkey Station, Yawkey Way, Zineb Curran

SPRING BROKEN: TELLING JOKES IN RED SOX NATION SOUTH

Written by WILL NOONAN Posted March 28, 2019 Filed Under: A+E, Comedy

We spend the rest of the year criticizing every player, but in the spring we can dream. Prospects are vastly overrated, and insanely unrealistic hopes can be placed upon the most random of players. But that’s the fun of it.

Filed Under: A+E, Comedy Tagged With: baseball, Florida, Red Sox, Spring Training, Will Noonan

ROOKIE YEAR: AN ALL-GIRLS BASEBALL TEAM BATS BACK ADVERSITY FROM ROXBURY TO ROCKFORD

Written by BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ Posted September 5, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Some team members were playing baseball for the very first time in their lives at the national tournament. They were there for the experience, an accomplishment in and of itself.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: baseball, Baseball For All, Boston Astros, girls baseball, Robert Louis Jr., Rockford, Roxbury, The BASE, womens baseball

SPECIAL FEATURE: FULL SWING

Written by BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ Posted April 4, 2018 Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, Non-fiction

Most boys will never be major league baseball players. Up until now, though, no woman has ever been one. For men, it’s a long shot. For women, it’s a fantasy, something reinforced by the very name of the camp—a name that can seem both inspiring and insulting at once.

Filed Under: FEATURES, LIFESTYLE, Non-fiction Tagged With: A League of Their Own, baseball, Boston, Britni de la Cretaz, fantasy camp, Florida, Joe Castiglione, Red Sox, Red Sox Nation, women's fantasy camp, women's sports, Yankees

SPECIAL FEATURE: THE YAWKEY WAY

Written by BRITNI DE LA CRETAZ Posted July 20, 2017 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Offensive comments and controversy aside, these hosts are winning in the ratings, proving that there is indeed a massive audience for such bigoted rhetoric in Greater Boston.

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Adam Jones, Albert Breer, Albert Goodwill Spalding, baseball, Boston, Boston Red Sox, Charles Ogletree, Chris Young, Colin Kaepernick, Dan Roche, Don Imus, dunkin donuts, ESPN, fenway park, Gerry Callahan, Glenn Ordway, Howard Bryant, Jackie BradleyJr., Jerry Remy, Jim Rice, John Dennis, Larry Lucchino, Michael Che, Minihane, Mookie Betts, NESN, Orioles, Red Sox, Sports Hub, Yawkey Way, Zineb Curran

WHAT’S FOR BREAKFAST? WINE

Written by PATT KELLEY Posted September 24, 2016 Filed Under: Comics

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: baseball, Patt Kelley, pete, rose, What's for Breakfast

COMMUTE OF THE LIVING DEAD: NICE HAT 2

Written by ERIC BOEKER Posted October 11, 2015 Filed Under: Comics

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: baseball, Beer, blood, brain eating, comic strip, comics, geek, horror, horror art, horror comedy, horror comic, hot dogs, humor, laugh, Laugh Cartoon Comics, living dead, Night of the Living Dead, sunday, Sunday Comics, sunday comics project, sundaycomic, undead, walking dead, webcomic, weird, Zombie, zombie art, Zombie Comedy, zombie comic, zombie webcomic

TURF WAR: THE SAGA OF GENTRIFICATION IN SOMERVILLE IS PLAYING OUT IN THE CITY’S YOUTH SPORTS LEAGUES

Written by DOUGLAS YU Posted September 21, 2015 Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction

Image by Derek Kouyoumjian

 

Longtime volunteer Bob Schofield, well known to his neighbors for greeting Somervillians who show up in the stands for neighborhood baseball action, is frustrated. As the Somerville Youth Softball president who also helped launch the ...  read more

Filed Under: FEATURES, Non-fiction Tagged With: Babe Ruth, baseball, Bob Schofield, George Scarpelli, Massachusetts, Mayor Joe Curtatone, Medford, SOMERVILLE, Somerville Recreation Department, The Show. George Scarpelli, Trum Field, Youth Sports

SECRET ASIAN MAN: FIRST BASE

Written by TAK TOYOSHIMA Posted April 25, 2015 Filed Under: Comics

Take me out to the ball game.

Filed Under: Comics Tagged With: abbott and costello, baseball, Who's on First?

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