Friday, May 17, 2024

Shakespeare Reference in Tales From The Red Sox Dugout

Tales From The Red Sox Dugout, written by Jim Prime with Bill Nowlin, contains a Shakespeare reference. Actually, it might contain more, but the copy I read, which is the one my dad owned, is missing several pages. Well, the pages are there, but the text is not. It's weird. Several pages are blank. I wish I'd looked through it more carefully before purchasing it for him. Pages 146, 147, 150, 151, 154, 155, 158 and 159 are all blank. But on page 152, there is a reference to Romeo And Juliet: "What's in a name? Carl Yastrzemski was so popular in Boston that Sherm Feller used to introduce him only by his number: 'Number 8!'" That is a reference to Juliet's famous line, "What's in a name? That which we call a rose/By any other word would smell as sweet."

Tales From The Red Sox Dugout was published in 2001.


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