BOSTON — Tobacco juice and sunflower seeds are no longer strewn along the right-field line, and the trolley tracks that guided legions of fans directly into Braves Field have long since been paved over.
But the history of championship baseball lingers in the cracks and concrete walls of the old right-field pavilion of Braves Field, where Boston professional baseball was integrated, where the Cleveland Indians last won the World Series and where Babe Ruth pitched one of the greatest games in Series history for the Boston Red Sox.
That gem by Ruth helped the Red Sox win the championship at Braves Field in 1916, the only previous postseason meeting between this year’s World Series franchises.