At the 1999 All-Star Game, Fenway Park was the center of the baseball universe, and other thoughts - The Boston Globe

It was 23 years ago this week. John Henry had yet to buy the Red Sox and young David Ortiz was hitting .315 for Minnesota’s Triple A team in Salt Lake City.

All of which reminds me of 1999, when Fenway Park was the center of the hardball universe and we enjoyed perhaps the best baseball weekend in 120 years of taking ourselves out to the ballgame. It wa… [+9039 chars]

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