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Old 10-04-2010, 12:45 AM   #7
Mike P
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Originally Posted by JamesJet View Post
Sounds like you had some special tickets. If you ever have the chance, the tour of Fenway is cheap and awesome. Try and get one of the older guys as your tour guide. They'll tell you all about Ted Williams etc. Great shots looks like a good time.

James
I wonder whether they tell you that in the off-season, he'd go in there with his shotgun and take target practice on the pigeons

Yawkey gave him the keys. He had free run of Fenway any time he wanted.

Teddy Ballgame was a good friend and hunting/fishing partner of Paul Kukkonen, who owned a tackle shop in Worcester. Lots of Worcester guys heard a lot of Ted stories from Paul.

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