Baseball Musings
Baseball Musings
October 18, 2007
The Blue and the Red

Murray Chass writes about his cousins, sisters divided by the ALCS:

The sisters were raised as Indians fans, but Linda went away to college, never returned to Cleveland and landed in Boston, where immigrants are brainwashed into being Red Sox fans. Bonnie also went away to college, but she returned home to reaffirm her undying loyalty to the Indians.

"This is all my dad's fault," Bonnie said. "When he had two girls first and thought he might not have a son, he passed down his love of baseball to us. He would take us to doubleheaders on Sundays and play catch with us in the driveway, but I don't think he ever thought it would turn out to be the feud it is today."

Mort Klein, their father, acknowledged his role. "I really created a monster between the two daughters," he said. The family only hopes the relationship survives this series.

"A family divided against itself cannot stand," Linda's investment banker son, Josh, wrote in an e-mail message, then added, "Go Sox!"

Times are tense.

Where's Lincoln when you need him? :-)


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