Over the Monster · Jun 11, 2024
I Once Considered Myself Broken. Then Baseball Saved My Life.
Photo by Billie Weiss/Boston Red Sox/Getty ImagesSometime during an early autumn evening in late 2004, amid the regional euphoria of the Red Sox first championship in 86 years, I made a decision that inadvertently saved my life. Drunk on the October high of one of the most intense, historical, and flat out stunning chapters ever authored on a diamond, I elected to expand my baseball fandom to include a second team.
It wasn’t a decision designed to replace my obsession with the Red Sox, but rather, a way to grow my obsession with baseball as whole. A curiosity of what transpired in MLB’s universe outside of the inferno burning at its Boston vs. New York epicenter.
