Fans line route, cheer all stars except Red Sox

 
The sound of thousands of New Yorkers booing echoed its way up Sixth Avenue, so that the fans standing at the corner of 42nd and Sixth had a pretty good idea of what was coming long before the truck carrying Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia came into view. [link]

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