Bruins Continue Special Season With 2023 Winter Classic Win

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by Russ_Cohen - January 3, 2023January 3, 20230

Boston - - The Boston Bruins won the 2023 Winter Classic. They got an exciting 2-1 comeback win at Fenway Park. Jake DeBrusk was there to clean up the garbage and secure the win. Taylor Hall did the heavy lifting with some great dekes and backup goalie, Casey DeSmith, who

Evgeni Malkin Is Still Missing a Winter Classic Moment

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by Russ_Cohen - January 2, 2023January 3, 20230

Boston - - Evgeni Malkin has played over 1,000 NHL games. He has 1,180 points in 1,017 games. Recently the Russian veteran passed Sergei Fedorov for the second most points for a Russian-born player. What’s missing from his tremendous resume? A Winter Classic moment. Sidney Crosby had his in 2008,

Fenway Flashback

Baseballology

by Harvey Frommer - August 15, 20180

The glory days are back at the Fens as the 2018 season heads down the home stretch. There is a lot of excitement about the real possibility of another world championship for the Sox. Royal and loyal rooters, though, still have in their memory bank images of a sad long

FENWAY PARK FLASHBACK

Baseballology

by Harvey Frommer - June 13, 20180

The joy and passion and full houses and winning ways now on parade at Fenway Park all are a sharp contrast to the way things once were at the little ballpark in most of the 1960s. There are still those around who recall that time, some with mixed emotions. Sam Mele: I

Remembering Ted Williams

Baseballology

by Harvey Frommer - May 9, 20180

He was called “the Splendid Splinter,” “the Kid,” “Teddy Ballgame” and other unmentionable names. But Ted Williams was always something else. There was the love-hate affair fans at Fenway Park had with Ted Williams. He dropped a fly ball in the first game of a doubleheader. Raucous razzing followed. In the

FLASHBACK: First Opening Day at Fenway Park

Baseballology

by Harvey Frommer - March 25, 20180

It was damp and chilly throughout New England for most of the spring of 1912, and in Boston, it took a few tries before baseball at a brand new ballpark could be played in decent weather. On April 9th, the Red Sox and Harvard's baseball team met in an exhibition game

Fenway Park Begins

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by Harvey Frommer - September 14, 2016September 14, 20160

Owner General Charles Henry Taylor, a Civil War veteran and owner of the "Boston Globe," had decided back in 1910 to build a new ballpark in the Fenway section of Boston bordering Brookline Avenue, Jersey Street, Van Ness Street and Lansdowne Street. It would cost $650,000 (approximately $14 million today),