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Bill Wirtz

No one does the absurd quite like the Red Sox

The challenge of baseball, and the beauty of it, is the length and density of it. It’s pretty much every day for six months, and every team and every player has to do whatever is necessary to even remember what day it is at this time of…

Farewell to my first and last

/Pat Foley was the voice of the Chicago Hawks for four decades.Image: Getty ImagesThe generations of sports fans who grew up learning and loving a sport and team through the radio are disappearing these days. Another one came to a close on…