Mazal Tov to Boston fans on the occasion of the Centennial birthday of Fenway Park.
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Our 1934 "Slants on Sports" columnist Morris Weiner knew his baseball trivia. Weiner pointed out that the Boston Red Sox held a share of the longest game in World Series history, 14 innings played against the Brooklyn Robins in 1916.
That record for most innings played in a World Series game has since been tied but not surpassed.
One 1934 event that did take place in Fenway: the budding friendship between a Joe Cronin and Al Schacht, Irish manager and Jewish third base coach who bolted for the Boston Red Sox in 1935:
Between the Celtic Cronin and the Hebraic Schacht there has developed a sort of "Abie’s Irish Rose" partnership which apparently was more important than generally supposed in the scheme of things in Washington.
And another: A Catholic cardinal’s philosemitic sermon.
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