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Article: Faraway faithful Across US, it sounds like Red Sox nation
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 23, 2007
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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. - Wearing a crisp white Red Sox jersey and a
dusty blue Boston cap, Bill Adams sat a few rows from third base at
Tropicana Field. He has never lived in New England. He has been in
Fenway Park only once. And he was the first on his feet when David
Ortiz sliced a triple.
"Yeah, Big Papi," he hollered, thrusting fists in the air and
turning to high-five his older brother. "Holy moly!"
A font of team trivia, he knew before the statistics flashed on
the scoreboard that it was the first triple Ortiz had hit all year,
shouting to his brother Mark over the cheering crowd: "How often do
you see that?"
In row after row, Tampa Bay Devil Rays fans were outnumbered and
outshouted ...