Category: Baseball

  • Philly, Foreign & Familiar

    Kelly Salasin In the span of one season, this unlikely sports fan is back in the stands at another professional baseball game– this time in Philadelphia. Two decades in New England has made this mid-Atlantic city a stranger to me.   From parking-lot tailgaters to street cops to peddlers, the faces and attitudes in Philly…

  • Fenway Revisited

    2009 Season by Kelly Salasin In less than a year, this library-museum-cafe lover finds herself back in the stands at Fenway, and writing about baseball again. You might recall last summer’s Cracker Barrel and my article entitled, “An Outsiders View into Fenway Park.” In it, I pooh-poohed professional baseball and all its hype. Though I’d…