FORT MYERS, Fla. -- Mayra Bazavilvazo wanted to do something unforgettable for her brother on his 19th birthday. So, in the summer of 2006, she gave him the gift so many of her friends from dental school at Boston University would give for a special occasion.
She got him tickets to a game at Fenway Park.
It wasn’t just any game either. It was the Boston Red Sox versus the New York Yankees in the late August heat of a pennant race. And the seats weren’t just any seats. They belonged to Red Sox third baseman Mike Lowell, whose brother was doing his residency in the same dentistry program as Bazavilvazo.