Baseball’s playoffs begin this week. A testimony that the game has not strayed too far from its past is that among this year’s favorites are two teams whose
Where can I begin to tell about what Bill Russell meant to me and my generation of Boston basketball fans? When Russell arrived in Boston just before Christmas day in 1956, he had won gold with the USA team in the Olympics and had led his college team at the University of San Francisco to two national NCAA championships. Still, he was mostly an unknown quantity for us Boston
Robert Azzi is a photographer and writer who lives in Exeter. His columns are archived at theotherazzi.wordpress.com. We took our daughter to her first Boston Red Sox game when she was six weeks old. Her mother had sewn a Red Sox patch on a Snugglie.