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Article: MICHAEL HUNT Red Sox fans on emotional roller-coaster
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- October 24, 2004
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Red Sox fans on emotional roller-coaster
Boston -- As the crowd-warming theme song from a famous bar-based
sitcom implies, there is something cozy and familiar about a World
Series game at Fenway Park. The ancient yard is so snug and so
intimate that you really do feel as if everyone knows your name.
Yet just beyond the Green Monster, an air of menace lurks. Rioting
broke out after the Boston Red Sox's unprecedented comeback victory
against the New York Yankees for the American League pennant. A 21-
year-old college student was killed early Thursday morning by a
pepper-spray pellet fired by police. City officials have threatened
to crack down further at the next sign of violence.
Somehow, ...