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Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
The Reverse of the Curse

NOVEMBER 1, 2004 --

If a lot fewer than a million workers were in
Washington D,C, for the Million Workers March, October 17 (where LPR noticed a Federalist 57-type comment on the back of one T-shirt), a lot more than a million
people were reported to have attended the victory march in Boston, October 30, of the World Champion Red Sox.


Supreme Court of the United States, October 18.


"We're not the problem. We're the solution" T-shirt seen at Million Workers March, Washington, D.C. October 17.)


LPR was outside Fenway Park for games 1 and 2 of trhe World Series. Parking enforcement personnel made LPR feel right at home with a parking ticket before game 2, after LPR got a photo of James Taylor, who had just rehearsed the national anthem.
 

James Taylor, who sang the National Anthem at Game 2 of the World Series at Fenway.


Parking ticket on LPRmobile outside Fenway Park on October 24.


A happy Sox fan after Game 2.


And LPR snapped a photo of a jubilant Red Sox fan after the second game win over the St. Louis Cardinals. LPR then entered Fenway Park, taking some photos, including one of Shana observing the inside-the-park post-game excitement.

Inside Fenway park after Game 2.


Shana in Fenway Park after Game 2.

Before game one, LPR got a photo of avid Sox fan David Millette, now living in Key West Florida, who had slept outside the ballpark in hopes of buyng a ticket to the game at the team's ticket window. The next day, LPR learned that Mr. Millette, succeeded in getting a grandstand ticket, paying, as the ticket indicates, $145.


World Series Grandstand Ticket for Game 1.


David Millette (red face) holder of the game 1 ticket as seen in the accompanying photo, camped outside Fenway for the ticket - sold at
Fenway Park ticket office 10/23.


Returning to Boston, October 28, LPR
again saw Mr. Millette, learning that his camper had been towed the previous day, and that he had been arrested in connection with the towing -- both incidents were unjust, he indicated.

Boston police, in riot gear outside Fenway Park after Game 2.


"Reverse the Curse" t-shirt.


If the Bambino's curse has been reversed (LPR believes it now applies to the New
York Yankees -- for considering plans to leave "The House that Ruth Built") - apparently the curse of the tow trucks remains widespread.

This photo of the statue of Ted Williams outside Fenway Park, taken
after Boston swept the World Series against the St. Louis Cardinals, seems to show a smile on the face of
the greatest Red Sox player ever that might not have been apparent before the Bosox won the 2004 baseball
championship of the world.