Neil Diamond’s hit single “Sweet Caroline’’ peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1969. Thirty-three years later, in a 2002 development that seemed both organic and downright inexplicable, it became a nightly singalong tradition in the eighth inning of Red Sox games at Fenway Park.
All these years later of its odd ubiquity, and never has it made more sense as an anthem of Boston sports fans than now.
Good times never seemed so good? Got that right, Neil. And the good times are poised to last.