I was daydreaming a bit yesterday and asked myself what moment around the Red Sox was my most memorable moment, and then Boston sports in general, but then my mind continued wandering and ended up at "the favorite moment which wasn't a specific play in a game." So for example, the snow plow operator plowing the field at Foxboro. Not a play in the actual game, but memorable. I suppose one could stretch it to Fisk waving the ball fair once the act of hitting it was over. I remember feeling a crushing sadness watching Yaz take his good bye lap around Fenway (on TV of course). I loved the huge cheer for Mariano Rivera when introductions were made to open the season after the Sox won in 2004.
For me the memory that will never fade was Jim Rice going into the stands and carrying the young boy who had been struck by the foul ball (off the bat of Stapleton?) out of the stands across the field into the Sox dugout to get him to the Sox medical staff. I only saw it on TV, and honestly I don't remember the blood or any of that, just the image of him being carried and his father following them out of the stands. I didn't know until I googled yesterday that the boy threw out the first pitch the next season, or any followup to the fact that he had a 100 percent recovery. 5 minute coverage (no actual footage):
There are many here that have a longer memory of local sports. What is your indelible moment?
For me the memory that will never fade was Jim Rice going into the stands and carrying the young boy who had been struck by the foul ball (off the bat of Stapleton?) out of the stands across the field into the Sox dugout to get him to the Sox medical staff. I only saw it on TV, and honestly I don't remember the blood or any of that, just the image of him being carried and his father following them out of the stands. I didn't know until I googled yesterday that the boy threw out the first pitch the next season, or any followup to the fact that he had a 100 percent recovery. 5 minute coverage (no actual footage):
There are many here that have a longer memory of local sports. What is your indelible moment?
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