Sitting on the southeastern shores of Nova Scotia is a place called Halifax. Located in the Great White North, you might expect the few residents who aren't hockey fans to support a "local" baseball team in the Toronto Blue Jays. Not so. According to the Toronto Star, Halifax is officially part of Red Sox Nation.
On Tuesday, Red Sox club officials brought a special piece of hardware to the fans up north: the 2007 World Series Trophy. The trophy was on display for two days in order for thousands of Nova Scotia fans to photograph and touch the Commissioner's Trophy.
It took a little doing for the decentralized fans to get the attention of the ball club. But relentless efforts, including a massive letter-writing campaign, orchestrated by the Bluenose BoSox Brotherhood fan club eventually made it happen.
Darrell Corbett, a life-long Nova Scotia resident who started listening to Sox games as a child in the 1940's said:
"I thought I would be dead before I saw them win the World Series but now I've seen two," he said, his face breaking into a wide grin.
Corbett is now 73 and made the trek to see the trophy along with an oxygen tank to help him breathe.
Great story, unless you're a Blue Jays fan.
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Reader Comments ( Page 1 of 1)
1. Great to know the "nation" extends that far!
Posted at 8:07AM on Jan 13th 2008 by titansone
2. I think its fabulous!!!I hope that all of New Zealand jumps on the bandwagon to..maybe all the Ratsox fans in the world can all move there in the very near future...the overflow of fans can even take them to the banks of the Arctic coast where they can all freeze and root for their team forever!!!!this is great news...I'm calling Cashman right now and sharing this with him!!!!
Posted at 11:12AM on Jan 13th 2008 by john