News of the signings by the Boston and Philadelphia players leaked to the press before the season ended, and all of them suffered verbal abuse and physical threats from the kranks, as baseball fans were called at the time, in Beantown and the City of Brotherly Love.

The move was seen by some fans as a belated attempt by the D ' Backs to counter the trade by their division rival, the Los Angeles Dodgers, for Boston Red Sox power-hitting OF Manny Ramirez on July 31 and also to compensate for the injuries to Hudson and Byrnes, generally considered two of the more " power-hitting " Diamondbacks on a team which has relied heavily on pitching and defense in recent years.

This was a highly controversial idea, as many Boston area sports fans consider Fenway Park to be sacred ground, and demolishing the old park would have caused a significant outcry ( as did the closure and later demolition of Tiger Stadium that same year after decades of grassroots efforts to try to save it ).

Williams also had an uneasy relationship with the Boston fans, though he could be very cordial one-on-one.

In his biography, Ronald Reis relates how Williams committed two fielding miscues in a doubleheader in 1950 and was roundly booed by Boston fans.

However, Asia clicked with fans of popular arena acts such as Journey, Boston and Styx.

While attending a basketball game on November 29, 1964, at the Boston Garden, Ed Snider, the then vice-president of the Philadelphia Eagles, observed a crowd of Boston Bruins fans lining up to purchase tickets to see a last-place ice hockey team.

If a U. S .- based team ( located in either Boston, Chicago, Detroit or New York City ) was playing in Toronto on a particular Saturday night, thousands of fans in the U. S. city whose local team faced the Leafs would often listen to the CBC broadcast via skywave reception, with the game often drawing far more listeners during the HNIC broadcast period than any local station.

In Game Five of that series, as the 76ers went to victory and the NBA Finals, Philadelphia fans chanted " Boston is dead!

With them, the 76ers began an exciting ride for the fans of Philadelphia, beating their long-time rival from Boston in a seven-game playoff to advance to the Eastern Conference Finals.

In the game's closing moments, the Boston Garden fans began chanting " Beat L. A., Beat L. A .", an incredible moment in basketball history.

Both matches were fought at the Boston Garden near Hagler's hometown, endearing him to Boston fight fans.

* January 6-Approximately 1000 Led Zeppelin fans, waiting for tickets to go on sale for Led Zeppelin's February 4 concert, cause an estimated $ 30, 000 in damage to the lobby of the Boston Garden.

Most notably it is the theme song for Red Sox Nation, the fans of the Boston Red Sox, although Diamond noted that he has been a lifelong fan of the Brooklyn / Los Angeles Dodgers.

The announcement, which marked the first official confirmation of any 2008 concert dates in the US, came during the traditional eighth-inning sing-along of his " Sweet Caroline ", which has become an anthem for Boston fans.

Modeled after the Green Monster seats at Fenway Park in Boston, it seats up to 393 people and gives fans an opportunity to catch a home run ball.

Earlier that day, Boston College football fans had seen their Sugar Bowl-bound team, undefeated and ranked number one in the nation, lose its place to their unranked rival, Holy Cross, in a crushing defeat of 55-12.

Speaker's return to Boston, May 9, 1916, was an unofficial tribute by the fans, as over 15, 000 showed up and roared with approval every time he came near the ball.

After the game, when asked if he had any second thoughts about appearing at the game, he said, " I really had to forgive, not the fans of Boston, per se, but I would have to say in my heart I had to forgive the media for what they put me and my family through.

He also won the immediate admiration of Red Sox fans, who referred to him in Boston accents as " NO-mah !".

However, the Yankees subsequently caught fire, eventually tying Boston atop the standings on September 10 after sweeping a four-game series at Fenway Park, an event known to Red Sox fans as the " Boston Massacre.

Other names were sometimes used before Boston officially adopted the nickname " Braves " in ; the club eventually left Boston for Milwaukee and is now playing in Atlanta, Georgia.

From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes — for instance, " Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ", which combined the 18th-century French tune " Ah vous dirai-je, Maman " with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.

Spenser was a former State trooper assigned to the Suffolk County DA's Office ( although some novels state that he also worked out of the Middlesex County DA's Office, for example in Walking Shadow and the pilot episode of Spenser: For Hire said he was a Boston Police detective ), and regularly seeks help from ( or sometimes butts heads with ) Martin Quirk ( originally a lieutenant, later a captain ) of the Boston Police Department.

Other names for P. pollachius include the Atlantic pollock, European pollock, lieu jaune, and lythe ; while P. virens is sometimes known as Boston blues ( distinct from bluefish ), coalfish ( or coley ), silver bills or saithe.

It is also used in Italian pastry and sometimes in Boston cream pie.

Considering the unconventional and sometimes confrontational nature of the productions, the shows still received interested reviews from the Phoenix and The Boston Globe.

The " Journal of Occurrences ", an anonymously written series of newspaper articles, chronicled clashes between civilians and soldiers while troops were stationed in Boston, feeding tensions with its sometimes exaggerated accounts of the events.

Local youth and High Schools teams have a good record of success in competition and generally travel locally for games in Southeastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and sometimes the Boston area.

Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as " The Bad Boys from Boston " and " America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band.

Cases involving New York or Boston merchants were frequently heard in Nova Scotia and sometimes even in England.

She contributed regularly to periodicals, sometimes under the pseudonym James Lincoln, including Atlantic Monthly, Congregationalist, Boston Evening Transcript, Christian Century, Contemporary Verse, Lippincott's and Delineator.

Some analysts, such as Jonathan Boston, claim that the Minister of Finance can sometimes hold more influence than the Prime Minister, if the conditions are right.

It is sometimes confused with the Ladies ' Magazine published in Boston, Massachusetts.

From this period we sometimes know the origins and authors of rhymes, like ' Twinkle Twinkle Little Star ', which combined an 18th-century French tune with a poem by English writer Jane Taylor and ' Mary Had a Little Lamb ', written by Sarah Josepha Hale of Boston in 1830.

It is sometimes erroneously referred to as the " Boston Commons ".

In 1975, Tyler convinced the parents of 16 year old groupie Julia Holcomb ( sometimes spelled Holcolm ) to sign over guardianship to him so that he could live with her in Boston.

Collectively, the Green Line tunnels through Downtown Boston and the Back Bay are sometimes called the Central Subway in planning documents.

Urban contemporary radio stations feature a playlist made up entirely of hip hop, R & B, pop, house, electronica such as dubstep and drum and bass ( often with hip hop vocalists or rappers ) and Caribbean music such as reggae, reggaeton, zouk, and sometimes Soca ( In Toronto, London, New York City, Boston and Miami ).

Fisher would sometimes relate made-up stories of previous lives, as a Boston accountant and a lumberjack in the Pacific Northwest.

A blood collection bus ( bloodmobile ) from Children ’ s Hospital Boston at a manufacturing facility in Massachusetts: Blood banks sometimes use a modified bus or similar large vehicle to provide mobile facilities for donation.

Adjacent to Harvard Yard, the historic heart of Harvard University, the Square ( as it is sometimes called locally ) functions as a commercial center for Harvard students, as well as residents of western Cambridge and the inner western and northern suburbs of Boston.

WBZ-TV ( sometimes informally referred to as " BZ " both on-and off-air ) was a pioneer in Boston television.