The first memories I have watching baseball were in 1998, though I didn’t really know much of what was going on beyond thinking the home run chase was awesome. I slowly became a fan from there, with specific memories of Pedro in 1999 and 2000, but I didn’t really get into it on the day-to-day, minutia level until 2004. Good timing, I know. And so I obviously did get to see and follow most of the Red Sox careers of some of the best and most iconic players the franchise has seen, like David Ortiz and Pedro Martínez and Manny Ramírez and Jason Varitek, among plenty of others.
For a certain generation of fan, Dustin Pedroia was the Red Sox
