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This Day In Red Sox History: December 6, 1991
By Administrator | December 6, 2009
Material for This Day In Red Sox History is drawn from Bill Nowlin’s “Day by Day with the Boston Red Sox”
In 15-degree-Fahrenheit weather, and with a wind-chill of 10-degrees-below-zero, I was interviewed by the folks at WROR-Radio and two of the Boston television stations.
I was the first fan in line awaiting tickets for the 1992 season… the coveted duckets were to go on sale the next day. I had been in line since just after 12-noon on Wednesday, December 4th, when I took 2 1/2 days of vacation leave from work and traveled to Yawkey Way to start the line.
It was the fifth (of seventeen) times that I camped out at Fenway Park for tickets… doing so nearly every year until the current Red Sox ownership ended the practice of putting tickets on sale at the Box Office back in 2004. On most occasions, I was either the first or second person in line, spending between two and three days in line in the cold of winter.
In February, 2002, I was in line the day John Henry, Larry Lucchino and Tom Werner learned they were going to be able to purchase the club. Late one afternoon, one of their “team” (the guys who helped put the purchase together) found me outside the ballpark alone in the cold, seated on a folding chair. The next day the team-member found me there once again, this time joined by two dozen other fans who had arrived overnight. We talked for awhile, and at the end of the conversation he told me I was crazy.
Moments later he was on the phone with Larry Luchhino. He handed me the phone and I had a brief chat with the soon-to-be Sox owner / executive, who told me that the intensity of Red Sox Nation was one of the primary reasons he, Henry and Werner decided they wanted to buy the ballclub.
Within two hours the team member and another gentleman returned to the ballpark with wool blankets and hot coffee for those of us “crazy” enough to brave the cold… he told me that the blankets and coffee were provided courtesy of Luchhino.
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