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Keeping Score: Hot stove digest Published: 2/19/2021 5:57:38 PM Good morning! On a cold February day in 1964, Bob Kieras paid 69 cents for a No. 457 Scrap Book, took it home and started clipping spring training stories out of the Springfield Union. Kieras found it while he was cleaning out the attic and put it in the mail. “I turned 12 in July that year, and my passion for the Red Sox was so great, we rooted for them no matter how bad they were.” They were bad for many years, but we didn’t know how good we had it until the advent of $100 ticket prices.

She played a number of memorable shows, including Springfield's Fourth of July celebration.

Pakistan court frees four men convicted in beheading death of journalist Daniel Pearl Updated Jan 28, 2021; Posted Jan 28, 2021 Daniel Pearl, 38, was a reporter for The Wall Street Journal, who was kidnapped and beheaded in 2002 by terrorists in Pakistan. Facebook Share Pakistan’s highest court ruled Thursday that four men convicted of kidnapping and murdering American journalist Daniel Pearl should be set free. Pearl, who was working for The Wall Street Journal at the time of the kidnapping, had ties to Western Massachusetts, including stints at the North Adams Transcript, Berkshire Ea...

Starting a teaching career in New York City in 1986 wasn’t exactly an ideal time or venue, but that’s when and where it happened for me. While my classmates were going to work on Wall Street, I was student-teaching at Martin Luther King High School on...

Keeping Score: Duende or not Published: 12/18/2020 5:55:38 PM Modified: 12/18/2020 5:55:24 PM Good morning! Back in the day when kids stood on street corners hawking newspapers, Boston sports fans regularly turned to an erudite columnist named George Frazier. Educated at Boston Latin and Harvard, Frazier wrote for the Herald Traveler and the Boston Globe, and later for Esquire and Life magazine. In Boston he coined the term “duende” for a level of class attained by few people or places. Ted Williams had it, but Stan Musial did not. Celtics center Bill Russell had it, Wilt Chamberlain did...