Dover Doins: Red Sox heading south means spring is near
Ron Cole
Today, while scraping up ice and snow from my driveway, I began an annual ritual, singing along with Terry Cashman’s opus: “Talkin’ Baseball”- a paean to America’s game mentioning some of that game’s greatest from “Willie, Mickey and the Duke” to Jackie.
One of the things I love most about Doins is the opportunity we have to spread good news and cheer. Something that happens at this time annually is the exit from Boston of the Red Sox “truck.”
This year the unofficial holiday for the Fenway faithful took place on the Feb. 8 as it carried 20,400 baseballs, 1,100 bats, 200 batting gloves, 200 batting helmets, 320 batting practice tops, 160 white game jerseys, 300 pairs of pants, 400 T-shirts, 400 pairs of sox, 20 cases of bubble gum and 60 cases of sunflower seeds plus a myriad of other necessary items for the veterans and rookies of our olde town team.