For Hughes at Fenway, the Past Is a Long Time Ago

NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees found this 4/13/2008 on www.nytimes.com [flag]

On Sunday, Phil Hughes gets to be part of Fenway history for the first time, and his father, a reformed Red Sox fan, will be watching every pitch from far away. [link]

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Manny: Cruelty to animals
Published 4/13/2008 by Dave & Aziz Nekoukar at NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees
... small bit of revenge for the closer after Alex's go-ahead HR in the ninth off of him last June. Mike Vaccaro feels the showdown was worth waiting for . Phil Hughes will try to lead the Bombers Yanks ( tough to call them the Bombers these days ) to a series win in Fenway today over Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Sox. Hughes used to cheer for the Red Sox as a kid, reports Pete Abraham . Eh, we guess we still like him. Yankees.com has more on the topic. Hughes admits that was all a very long time ago. In other news... Jack Curry ...

Sports of The Times: It’s Still Charming, Increasingly Costly

Stiles Points - "So let it be written, ... found this 4/13/2008 on www.nytimes.com

The Fenway experience has been extremely yuppied-up in recent years, a uniquely American blend of the sacred and the profane.

Manny Kills Yanks Again

gridtalker posted 4/13/2008 from www.yankstalk.com

YANKEES 3 RED SOX 4 Saturdays game at Fenway, came down to one bad decision…. the decision of Mike Mussina to pitch to Manny Ramirez, instead of walking him to the empty 1st base. Early in the game, Ramirez had already hit a homerun over the green monster off of Mussina, and this time, in the 6th inning, the Sox had runners on 2nd and 3rd base, with 2 outs, and Ramirez to the ...

The Official Site of The New York Yankees: News: Fenway reunion awaits Hughes

NJ.com: Pride of the Yankees found this 4/13/2008 on newyork.yankees.mlb.com

BOSTON -- Unlike his first trip to Fenway Park, Phil Hughes will have one of the best seats in the house for Sunday night's finale to the three-game weekend series with the Red Sox. The Yankees starter, a Red Sox fan growing up in Southern ...

Report: Yanks unearth BoSox shirt in new stadium

MLB Rumors found this 4/13/2008 on sports.espn.go.com

A construction worker and Boston fan working on the concrete crew at the $1.3 billion new Yankee Stadium buried a Red Sox shirt in with the concrete foundation in the hopes of jinxing the Yankees' new home, the New York Post reported.

At only 21, Hughes already has the makings of an ace - MLB

WasWatching.com found this 4/13/2008 on sports.espn.go.com

BOSTON -- Some local poets would have you believe that Ted Williams hummed "Sweet Caroline" whenever he trotted out to left field. However, back before Fenway became a boutique ballpark, it was different, and so were both the Red Sox and Yankees. ...

Hughes in spotlight
Phil Hughes has been to Fenway Park before, but he's never pitched in the Yankees-Red Sox rivalry. His first trip to Fenway came roughly a decade ago, when Hughes watched Mo Vaughn and Nomar Garciaparra hit home runs.

Yanks unearth Sox jersey from new park
So much for the curse. The New York Yankees have ended a construction worker's attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Boston Red Sox jersey.

Yankees unearth buried Red Sox jersey from new stadium
NEW YORK - So much for the curse. The New York Yankees have ended a construction worker's attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Boston Red Sox jersey. Team...

Yankees foil 'curse' attempt at stadium (AP)
So much for the curse. The New York Yankees have ended a construction worker's attempt to jinx their new stadium with a buried Boston Red Sox jersey. Team officials watched Sunday as construction workers removed the jersey, with slugger David Ortiz's ...

ANOTHER HURDLE FOR HUGHES
Phil Hughes was baptized a Yankee when he made his debut April 26, 2007. Tonight he will be confirmed when he makes his first start against the Red Sox in Fenway Park in the rubber match of the three-game weekend series. It seems every game...