When the Red Sox were in the 1967 World Series, my high school in southern New Hampshire carried the live radio broadcast on the intercom system. A few years earlier, I know there were lots of school systems that did that for every World Series. After all, baseball was America's Game back then.
BTW, who will be the Red Sox fourth starter: Wakefield or Byrd? Notice that when Bartoilo Colon jumped ship rather than pitch out of the bullpen, the Red Sox management didn't make much of a stink about it. Colon had let them have him for the remainder of the season "on the cheap", in hopes of it jumpstarting his career as a starter. He may feel that when they subsequently obtained Byrd and wouldn't put him back in the rotation, after he had pitched well both in the majors and in the minors during his injured list rehab, that they were not honoring whatever informal agrement they might have had regarding him having an opportunity to earn his way back into the rotation.
BTW, who will be the Red Sox fourth starter: Wakefield or Byrd? Notice that when Bartoilo Colon jumped ship rather than pitch out of the bullpen, the Red Sox management didn't make much of a stink about it. Colon had let them have him for the remainder of the season "on the cheap", in hopes of it jumpstarting his career as a starter. He may feel that when they subsequently obtained Byrd and wouldn't put him back in the rotation, after he had pitched well both in the majors and in the minors during his injured list rehab, that they were not honoring whatever informal agrement they might have had regarding him having an opportunity to earn his way back into the rotation.
