The Beanpot is back home as the Eagles celebrate on Fenway's fabled lawn.
For Joe Cronin, there couldn't be a better storyline.
A native of Scarborough, Maine, he shares a name with a true icon of the game. After all, Joe Cronin played 20 years from 1926 through 1945, hit .301 over his career and is enshrined in the Baseball Hall of Fame. A former player, player-manager, general manager, and American League President, Joe Cronin had his familiar #4 retired at Fenway Park in 1984.
So it's fitting that the Joe Cronin who plays for Boston College, who wears #4 for Boston College, would have the kind of moment that comes along once in a lifetime in the house where the Boston Red Sox' Joe Cronin plied his trade.