This is the Day of Infamy for those Boston Red Sox fans who were raised within the confines of “The Fellowship of the Miserable.” What is the historic significance of December fourth? A hint would be to attach a year – 1916? Another hint is Joe Lannin. Unless you are well versed in the history of the team both hints are meaningless until I add a third to it: Harry Frazee.
Harry Frazee and Hugh Ward purchased the World Champions and set in motion circumstances on a scale of a chain reaction that one would expect in a nuclear explosion – in this instance the spiral to the depths of despair for the Royal Rooters of the Red Sox.