Ayo Edebiri throws First Pitch at Fenway Park before a game between the Boston Red Sox and the New York Yankees back on September 14, 2023 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA
When my cousin was a teenager, he went through a rebellious teenage phase... that consisted entirely of being a Yankees fan and wearing Yankees merchandise. Because he knew it would piss off his whole family, all of whom are Red Sox fans.
I have never watched more than 5 minutes of any given baseball game in my life and I sort of did this exact same thing. It must be hardwired in the rebellion center of the teenage brain around here.
On this day in 1982, a line drive foul ball hits a four year old boy in the head at Fenway. The now Hall of Famer, Jim Rice, realizing that it would take EMTs too long to arrive and cut through the crowd, sprang from the dugout and scooped up the boy.
He laid the boy gently on the dugout floor, where the Red Sox medical team began to treat him.
When the boy arrived at the hospital 30 minutes later, doctors said, without a doubt that Jim's prompt actions saved the boy's life.
Jim returned to the game in a blood-stained uniform.
After visiting the boy in the hospital, he stopped by the business office and instructed that the bill be sent to him.
Yoshida not only wore 34 in Japan for Harper, but named his French bulldog Harper and uses an Instagram handle (BH_Masataka34) with Harper’s initials and number. When Nippon Professional Baseball had a game where players wore nicknames on the backs of their jerseys, Yoshida, naturally, chose Harper as his nickname.