The future is sometimes predictable by the past. An eerie and often depressing connection to past failures when success was expected. With the Boston Red Sox, there is a period in their history when a window of opportunity existed and then closed – not a slam, but just a slow shutting as the light of great promise was blinked out.
That was the Red Sox of the 1940’s or specifically the 1946-50 Red Sox that have a connection to the current team in talent, performance, expectations and resources. That history has been written, but the current one will unfold over the next few years.