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BOSTON -- He watched Game 3 of the 1986 World Series from a seat down the left field line at Fenway Park, and he can vividly recall the 7-1 thumping the New York Mets gave the Boston Red Sox. He was sitting in front of his television set four days later, when the ball slid through Bill Buckner's legs. That hurt. A lot. But these were important moments in the professional development of Theo Epstein, who understood the type of heartache unique to Red Sox fans. He was only 12, a seventh-grader from Brookline, who played Little League baseball and pestered his older sister. But he had ambition.
"Everybody dreams of playing big-league baseball," said Sam Kennedy, a childhood friend and the vice president of corporate affairs for the Red Sox. "But we were smart. We both knew that we had absolutely zero shot of playing beyond high school or college. So we wanted to get front-office jobs. That's what we dreamed about."See the full content of this document
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Yale Grad has Sights On History
Kennedy never considered his buddy to be a "genius" when they were growing up. He was just Theo. But if the Red Sox are able to win four more games this season, Epstein, Boston's second-year general manager, would probably claim cult statu...
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