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Article: Darling right at home in Fenway Park
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- October 23, 1986
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BOSTON Ron Darling grew up in the Fenway Park bleachers where
the seats were lousy and the baseball wasn't always much better.
There was nowhere else he would rather be.
Last night, he was in a Fenway Park dugout and surprised to find
that the view wasn't much better.
Darling didn't have much time to worry about that, though.
There was a game to pitch and it seemed like half of Central
Massachusetts - the half he grew up with, anyway - was there with
him.
"I've never been so nervous the way I was in the first two
innings," Darling said. "I had 40 friends here tonight. I know it
sounds a bit clicheish, but it will probably sink in when I go home
tonight."
It will feel very good when ...