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Don Orsillo was attired in an academic tweed jacket accented by a professorial paisley tie. Appropriate, because the Red Sox were schooled by the Rays in a 16-5 blowout. Sam Fuld, who, in case you hadn’t heard, is from New Hampshire, had a stupendous game. In front of 30 of his family and friends the left fielder went 4-for-6 with three runs and three runs batted in. His home run to right field might have been aided by a fan — or was it one of Fuld’s flock? He could have joined B.J. Upton and became the second Rays player to hit for the cycle when he laced a liner into left in the ninth inning. All he needed to do was pull up at first base and make his place in the history books. Coming from Durham, New Hampshire, Fuld was raised a Red Sox fan and was of course steeped in the club’s tradition his entire life. In the omnibus of the epic of baseball to be an entry in a Tampa Bay page wasn’t worth the potential slugging percentage points that would be at issue at Fuld’s next arbitration hearing. This is something that Fuld, holder of...
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Photo courtesy of the Boston Public Library’s Sports Temples of Boston.