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There is no training ground to prepare you to play baseball in Boston, a place where you need both a love of the game and the hide of a rhinoceros to survive. No one ever explained this difficulty better than former Red Sox manager Grady Little.
“In Boston, it’s not just this one decision, or just one game,” he said, not long after being forever held responsible for blowing Game 7 of the 2003 ALCS by leaving a tiring Pedro Martinez in to start the eighth inning against the Yankees with a three-run lead that soon disappeared.