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By Bill Walczak, Reporter Columnist
January 1, 2021
Bill Walczak, left, with Bob Tarrant.
Auld lang syne, the Robert Burns poem that is sung at the end of the year, tends to be sung in a maudlin way, often with sadness and some liquor. Though our experience with the virus and the recent election may make us prefer to forget that 2020 ever happened, it is certainly a time we will always remember.
I was going through some photos on my phone this week, and came across a 2017 photo of one of my closest friends who died in early April of Covid-19. The picture showed Bob Tarrant and me at Yankee Stadium, and I chuckled as I remembered why I was there. Bob and I were very close from an early age, and went to elementary and high school together. We grew up in New Jersey, and he stayed there when I came to Boston for college. We both were Yankee fans in the era of Mickey Mantle, known to all as “the Mick,” who was thought by fans to have supernatural powers. I switched my alleg