Author: jamellott23

As Overheard in an Anonymous Irish Pub between the docks and Telegraph Hill: (Mustached Man, with rosy cheeks, clearly past his 6th pint)MM: The reason they call ‘em Banshees isn’t because they’re scary, I’ll tell you that. The middle of that batting order is literally transparent. Now, I told them damn reporters, I don’t have…

The snow has melted, the docks are teeming, good Christian boys are home with their mothers. And yet, Boston is mourning. With so few looking past the four walls of their shops, their factories, and their homes, Boston needs its heroes. Someone to look up and out to. Someone larger than life, who embodies the…

Herbert Hamilton – Boston Globe, January 3rd, 1903 As I walk into the Boston Yards around sunset, there are two people in the entire stadium waiting to greet me. Neither look up. The groundskeeper goes about his business, repairing the various frozen destructions of another middling Banshees season. And one of the top pitching prospects…