Our first vist to Fenway

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Posted By: Bernie

Every year for father's day I get my dad and my grandfather tickets to a Sox game at Fenway, usually grandstand or loge box seats so we have a good view, always a Tuesday night. They live in RI and I live here in Mass so they drive up and meet me for lunch at the Union Oyster House. We polish off a few dozen oysters, some shrimp cocktail, chowda and a few Bass Ales then head over toward Fenway. A few drinks, some stories and lots of laughs at The Cask 'n' Flagon and the Baseball Tavern then into the Fenway for batting practice at 5:05. I still can't believe how green it is in there. Once BP is over around 6:15 we head out onto Yawkey Way for some grub. 7:05 we're in our seats ready to root for and against the Sox (my grandfather's been a Sox fan since the late 30's/early 40's and grew up idolizing Ted Williams ... back then, as he calls it, "when it was a game" ... my dad and I are Yankees fans for some silly reason). Anyway, we've seen some good games over the years, last year we saw the Sox come back with 2 runs in the bottom of the 9th off of Tampa Bay closer Al Reyes to win 2-1 on a Coco Crisp single that scored Jason Varitek. Mike Lowell preceeded that single with a solo shot into the Monster seats which we saw straight on as we sat in grandstand section 16 row 8 on the first base side of home plate. After the game we funneled out onto Yawkey Way with the other 35,000 people who were in a buzz from the dramatics of the walk-off win. We found our way to Copperfields for a drink as we let traffic clear out a bit (and also because that seems to be the only place my grandfather can get a glass of scotch around Fenway). While there we checked out some of the pictures on the wall trying to figure out who all the old time players were. We were stumped by a picture directly behind the bar of Ted Williams, Dom Dimaggio and another unrecognizable player each down on one knee. It wasn't Doerr or Pesky, but we never figured it out. Maybe this year when we head to the Tuesday July 29th game against the Angels we will