For better or worse, your loyal scrivener isn’t exactly one to resist viewing Boston sports through a prism of nostalgia even on typical days.
Perhaps you’ve noticed. I’d blabber in this space about the heydays of, oh, Fred Lynn and Stanley Morgan weekly if I could get clearance. Terry O’Reilly and Dennis Johnson, too. At least biweekly, anyway.
Most of the time, unabashed sentimentality must yield, understandably, to the noteworthy sports news of the day, hour, and moment. But this past week brought not one, but two, rare situations where the past and present collide, and the reminder comes of just how good we had it around here for so long.