Guest post by Abacus Reveals
Catching Lightning in a Bottle … a performance for the ages that no one could ever have predicted.
The 1967 “Impossible Dream” Red Sox are a perfect example. While some may have foreseen a monster Triple Crown season for a 27-year-old Carl Yastrzemski, a Cy Young-worthy performance from some college kid named Lonborg? Unfathomable.
The Sox launched that stranger-than-fiction season April 12 at Fenway in front of fewer than 9,000 fans.
The very night prior to that Opening Day, a larger and more robust gathering had celebrated the rather decisive conclusion to an entirely different style of success – indeed the polar opposite of catching lightning in a bottle.