I share your enthusiasm for the Red Sox and am always pleased to learn more about their history. As a DC area fan, I often miss out on much of the fanfare, but in attending the Sox’ last regular season game in Baltimore, I got a good taste of Red Sox Nation. I like them in six if they lose game 3, five if they win it.

Go Sox!

Chan Van Horn
Graduate Student
George Mason University

Kai has family ties: … My wife’s great grandfather (my father-in-laws’ grandfather) was JJ Lannin, who owned the Red Sox from 1914 to 1916 and won two World Series, more than any other individual Red Sox owner.JJ was the one…

As far as I understand, the matches between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees are classic in baseball, just like a Rio Flamengo versus Fluminense match is a classic in football. The Yankees fans used to claim that their team often defeated the Red Sox. I do not know whether this is true or not, but if it is true today is one exception, which makes this victory even more important to demolish some myths and taboos.

Thus, I wish the Red Sox good luck.

Professional baseball is not very popular in Portuguese Speaking countries, except among members of the Japanese-Brazilian community in few Cities. Nevertheless, kids in Brazil do informally play a variation of baseball and cricket, which is called bat. The emotion seems to be the same in either case.