Ralph- small world. If you’re a Boston fan, I thought you might like the following:
It’s been about 30ish years ago now, but I used to play USTA team tennis against Bailey Howell regularly. Heck of a nice guy and a pretty good tennis player. Not so much a problem up and back, but you couldn’t get anything around him side to side. The man had a wing span like a jumbo jet.
About 20ish years ago now, my son played baseball at Delta State in Cleveland, MS, where Dave “Boo” Ferriss coached for many years. While he was no longer coaching, Coach Ferriss still came to all the home games, kept his own home made score book, and if it was cold, the outer layer was always that old wool Red Sox pitching jacket. The very definition of a scholar and a gentleman.
Lastly, though Boston didn’t win it, for my money the 1975 series vs Cincinnati is the best one I ever saw.