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Boston's Royal Rooters (MA) (Images of Baseball)
Boston's Royal Rooters - MA - Images of Baseball Author:Peter J. Nash In the fall of 1897, over 250 baseball fans from Roxbury, Massachusetts, traveled to Baltimore with saloon keeper Nuf-Ced McGreevy and Pres. John F. Kennedy?s future grandfather Honey-Fitz Fitzgerald to cheer their Beaneaters to the pennant. They became known famously as the Royal Rooters. Singing their fight song, ?Tessie,? they cheered on five... more » world champion teams in the early 1900s. When Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees after 1919, ?Tessie? all but disappeared from Fenway. A new generation of Fenway Faithful suffered through decades of heartbreak until ?Tessie? returned in 2004 to deliver another world title. In the course of a century, the original group of rooters has grown into a legion of fans known as Red Sox Nation. Boston?s Royal Rooters chronicles the rich tradition of Boston?s pioneering fans like Nuf-Ced, Honey-Fitz, and Lib Dooley, ?the Queen of Fenway Park,? and examines through rare images their influence on modern-day fans.« less