No More Manny
Manny Ramirez is happy in LA.
My friends in New York cannot understand how the Red Sox let the future Hall of Famer go.
It was those nasty long hairs in the shower room.
Go Bosox.
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Fenway Smith opens his eyes
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Adios Manny
The Boston Red Sox and the Chicago Cubs were cursed throughout the 20th Century. I don’t give a shit about the Cubbies, since I was born in Boston. I’m a Red Sox fan, although I lived in New York 27 years. I watched Bucky Dent’s homer at the Edison Hotel on Broadway. The Yankee fans […]
GAY BOY by Peter Nolan Smith
My family moved from Falmouth Foresides, Maine in the summer of 1960.
For lunch my father stopped at the New Hampshire tollbooth. I finished my Italian sandwich and asked for permission to go to the bathroom. My father was busy speaking with my mother about schooling for their five children. My father thought that public school […]
WALK LIKE A WOMAN by Peter Nolan Smith
I thought Billy Wilder’s film SOME LIKE IT HOT was funny, until my next-door neighbor asked in his basement, “Who you think is prettier as a woman? Jack Lemmon or Tony Curtis?”
“Neither.” This was 1964 and men in dresses weren’t supposed to be funny to 11 year-old boys on the South Shore of Boston.
“Yeah, but […]
