I’m from Boston, but I first started getting interested in baseball early in the 1967 season, when I was in second grade. No one had a clue things would go the way they did that year.
But I never heard of Jackie Jensen till about five years ago, when I met a young lady on the West Coast who said that Jackie Jensen was some kind of uncle.
I became a Red Sox fan in the late 50s when I was a little tyke, and one of the highlights of my life was seeing Ted Williams launch a home-run ball into the the right field stands at the old Yankee Stadium, circa 1958. I was sittingin a box seat behind 3rd base.