Boston fans sometimes liked to wring some wry satisfaction out of the fact that most of the great 1923-27 crew were graduates of the Red Sox -- sold to millionaires Huston and Ruppert by a man who could not deny them their most trifling desire.

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.

Today, the city has a strong sense of historic preservationism and is remembered for the Battle of Frenchtown during the War of 1812, as well as being the childhood residence of George Armstrong Custer and other members of his family, including his wife Elizabeth Bacon and brother Boston Custer.

Aged 94, he said he was happy that Boston remembered him as " Smoky.

Wakefield began his pitching career with the Pittsburgh Pirates, but is most remembered for his 17-year tenure with the Boston Red Sox, starting in 1995 and ending with his retirement in 2012 as the longest-serving player on the team.

Dent is widely remembered for hitting a three-run homer that gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead in the 1978 AL East division playoff game against the Boston Red Sox.

He is remembered in the names of both the market town of Boston in Lincolnshire ( 100 miles north of London ), and Boston in Massachusetts, United States.

In Boston, John Adams remembered long afterward that Mayhew ’ s sermon, “ was read by everybody .” Some would say later that this sermon was the first volley of the American Revolution, setting forth the intellectual and scriptural justification for rebellion against the Crown.

But he will be remembered by his poetic and excellent translation of Goethe's Faust ( 2 vols, Boston, 1870-71 ) in the original metres.

He is best remembered for his brilliant performance for the Boston Red Sox in the postseason.

Frederick Law Olmsted, senior member of the firm, is best remembered for designing Central Park in New York City and the Boston park system.

*" Calder Willingham and Hamilton Basso: Dimly remembered, works that disturb and enlighten ", by James Sallis, Boston Herald

Brunansky played three seasons for the Red Sox, and is best remembered by Boston fans for his diving catch of an Ozzie Guillén line drive in the ninth inning of the season ending game that preserved the Red Sox victory, sending them to the 1990 ALCS.

An editorial, in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in February 1915, makes absolutely clear that people in Cleveland remembered Sockalexis and the team's nickname " Indians " in 1897 ; the nickname had absolutely nothing at all to do with Boston Braves of 1914.

Boivin was most remembered for his time with the Boston Bruins as he helped lead them to two Stanley Cup finals in the late 1950s.

For the 2004 baseball season the band released a re-working of an old Boston Red Sox song, " Tessie ".

On October 21, 2007, the band played on a small stage in Fenway Park prior to Game 7 of the 2007 American League Championship Series and on October 30, 2007, the band performed on a flatbed truck during the Boston Red Sox rolling rally to celebrate their 2007 World Series Championship, playing " I'm Shipping Up to Boston ", " Dirty Water ", " Tessie ", " The State of Massachusetts ", " For Boston ", and " Sunshine Highway ", to celebrate.

" Tessie " is both the longtime anthem of the Boston Red Sox and a 2004 song by the punk rock Dropkick Murphys.

The newer song, written in 2004, recounts how the singing of the original " Tessie " by the Royal Rooters fan club helped the Boston Americans win the first World Series in 1903.

The second " Tessie " — which featured backing vocals from Red Sox players Johnny Damon, Bronson Arroyo, and Lenny DiNardo, Red Sox Vice President of Public Affairs Dr. Charles Steinberg ; and Boston Herald sportswriter Jeff Horrigan ( who co-wrote the new lyrics with the Dropkick Murphys ) — has become a theme song for the Red Sox and tells the story of the Royal Rooters singing the original " Tessie ".

-- Boston Red Sox Outfielder Jackie Jensen said Monday night he was through playing baseball.

In 1848, the New York and New Haven Railroad Line was completed through Connecticut, providing a direct, faster rail connection from New York City to Boston.

He attended Boston Latin School but did not graduate ; he continued his education through voracious reading.

The Herald < nowiki >' s </ nowiki > history can be traced back through two lineages, the Daily Advertiser and the old Boston Herald, and two media moguls, William Randolph Hearst and Rupert Murdoch.

The Central Artery / Tunnel Project ( CA / T ), known unofficially as the Big Dig, was a megaproject in Boston that rerouted the Central Artery ( Interstate 93 ), the chief highway through the heart of the city, into a 3. 5-mile ( 5. 6-km ) tunnel.

There was chronic congestion on the Central Artery ( I-93 ), an elevated six-lane highway through the center of downtown Boston, which was, in the words of Pete Sigmund, " like a funnel full of slowly-moving, or stopped, cars ( and swearing motorists ).

Another important motivation for the Big Dig in its final form was the abandonment of the Massachusetts Highway Department's intended expressway system through and around Boston.

The Central Artery, as part of MassHighway's Master Plan of 1948, was originally planned to be the downtown Boston stretch of Interstate 95, and was signed as such ; a bypass road called the Inner Belt ( officially Interstate 695 ) was to pass around the downtown core to the west, through the neighborhood of Roxbury and the cities of Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.

Boston's Logan Airport lies across Boston Harbor in East Boston, and before the Big Dig the only access from downtown was through the paired Callahan and Sumner tunnels.

East – west traffic on the Massachusetts Turnpike now proceeds directly through the Ted Williams Tunnel to Logan Airport and Route 1A beyond, with new exits in South Boston along the way.

Boston backgrounds are shown in the opening scences including Banacek rowing on the Charles River and walking through Government Center.

Between 1790 and 1840, Cambridge began to grow rapidly, with the construction of the West Boston Bridge in 1792, that connected Cambridge directly to Boston, making it no longer necessary to travel eight miles ( 13 km ) through the Boston Neck, Roxbury, and Brookline to cross the Charles River.

Despite attempts to protect the town through quarantine, eight known cases of smallpox appeared in Boston by May 27, and by mid-June, the disease was spreading at an alarming rate.

The institute was founded in 1998 through the sponsorship of Boston businessman Landon T. Clay.

* 1919 – Boston Molasses Disaster: A large molasses tank in Boston, Massachusetts, bursts and a wave of molasses rushes through the streets, killing 21 people and injuring 150 others.

New Jersey's position at the center of the Northeast megalopolis, between Boston and New York City to the northeast, and Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, D. C. to the southwest, fueled its rapid growth through the process of suburbanization in the 1950s and beyond.

Clemens was drafted 19th overall by the Boston Red Sox in 1983 and quickly rose through the minor league system, making his major league debut on May 15,.

** Boston Molasses Disaster: A wave of molasses released from an exploding storage tank sweeps through Boston, Massachusetts, killing 21 and injuring 150.

** In the English Fenland through the vehemence of the wind and the violence of the sea, the monastery of Spalding and many churches are overthrown and destroyed " All the whole country in the parts of Holland was for the most part turned into a standing pool so that an intolerable multitude of men, women and children were overwhelmed with the water, especially in the town of Boston, a great part thereof was destroyed.

The 1896 Summer Olympics saw the birth of the modern marathon and the event led to the growth of road running competitions through annual events such as the Boston Marathon ( first held in 1897 ) and the Lake Biwa Marathon and Fukuoka Marathons, which were established in the 1940s.