There should be a saying that goes, “If you can’t find a Red Sox or New England connection in baseball, you’re just not trying.”
With Ivy League executives from Harvard, Dartmouth and Yale flooding front offices, that adage holds true more than ever. At this week’s annual Winter Meetings in Orlando, Fla., an abundant supply of area natives and former Sox employees holding jobs with the 29 other teams and in related fields will ply their talents in the service of Major League Baseball’s $10 billion industry.
And if their efforts to sweeten their own roost happens to foil the Red Sox at the same time, the team will try not to take it personally.