Monthly Archives: October 2012

THE NAME IS FENWAY by Peter Nolan Smith

October 6, 2012 – 9:11 am

I was born in Boston in 1952. My childhood, teenage years, and college career were spent within the confines of New England. My heart belonged to the Celtics and Red Sox. These allegiances were never challenged by my decades of living in New York or anywhere else in the world. When in 2004 the Red […]

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See Yah Bobby

October 5, 2012 – 8:48 pm

Last September’s collapse by my beloved Boston Red Sox was heart-wrenching, but as soon as the upper management signed ex-Mets manager Bobby Valentine to lead the 2012 season, I took my first sabbatical from baseball in my sixty years of life. While Bobby Valentine hadn’t played or coached the 1986 Mets team, Bobby V was […]

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Love-Hate Boston Sports Teams

October 4, 2012 – 12:02 pm

FROM MY NIECE Boston sports teams are like men in relationships: The Patriots are like the new boyfriend that you really like – he’s awesome but almost too good to be true, so you worry. The Bruins are like the guy that you just casually dated and you don’t really care about him, he’s just […]

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THE BEST OF DAYS by Peter Nolan Smith

October 3, 2012 – 2:57 pm

Once a month Oilcan flew out of Logan to JFK for a weekly meeting at his investment firm’s main office. Traffic from the airport on the Grand Central was lighter than the previous month, which he considered another sign of the faltering economy. No wait at the Midtown Tunnel’s tollbooths was yet another signal of […]

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The Past Present and Future

October 2, 2012 – 1:02 pm

Never view the present without looking at the past to see what the future had been once.. – Pascha Ray

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