A Newspaper Man's Dying A-Rod Wish
From his hospice bed last month, James Callahan minced no words.
A few weeks before James Callahan passed away at a Pennsylvania hospice after a valiant battle with cancer, his favorite baseball team – the Boston Red Sox – posted a message in his honor on the Fenway Park right-field scoreboard, during an April 14 game against the Washington Nationals. Callahan, who worked over the years as an editor at Bridgeport, Connecticut weekly The Bridgeport Light, Pennsylvania’s West Chester Daily Local News and other papers, died April 26 at age 62.
The Red Sox-Yankees rivalry is one of the greatest in all of sports, which Callahan faced additionally for decades in the form of his brother-in-law, Wayne, who cheers for the pinstripes.
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