What's more is that Toby only played the song if the Red Sox were ahead in the game, seeing the song as a good luck charm. If you haven't seen the video of Neil Diamond performing "Sweet Caroline" at Fenway following the Boston Marathon bombing, you need to because it will give you chills, even if you're not a Red Sox fan.
Diamond showed up unannounced to surprise fans and express his love for the City and her people following the tragedy that fell on them. Jude Obits Traci Taylor Updated: April 22, When Pesky visited the Perkins School for the Blind several years back, Powers relayed, students at the facility just outside Boston had reportedly serenaded the beloved Red Sox legend with a song that caused the old shortstop to tear up:.
Can a song that causes a wonderful old man to cry—let's assume it was for joy—and can get parents and children to put their arms around each other and belt out the words as they sway side-to-side, really be so bad? The bottom of the eighth inning at Fenway Park has been preceded by a recording of Neil Diamond singing his signature hit for the past decade. It doesn't matter if the Red Sox are winning , losing or losing , Sweet Caroline always gets her airtime.
If you listen to the crowd reaction, it sounds like most people love this tradition; thousands sing along as strong and loud as they did when Bruce Springsteen opened with Thunder Road at Fenway last week, and with just as much unabashed joy. Yet many sports radio hosts and callers are passionately opposed to the ritual, which one can assume means there are many fans at the games who share their displeasure.
Why such hatred? These clueless ditzes jumped on the Red Sox bandwagon after the World Series season, and will sing a silly tune no matter what the score. My friend Nancy, a very sharp fan who has season tickets in left field, is squarely in this anti-Caroline camp. She was so disgusted by the sing-along during a particularly dismal home performance by the Red Sox this summer that she leaped up and started berating the swaying masses around her. What would cause an otherwise lovely woman to do this?
For the next few years, the song would be played on select occasions at the ballpark. But that all changed when Dr. Charles Steinberg came to the Red Sox as executive vice president of public affairs in They would play it from time to time," Steinberg said. In , they were still doing that. Share on Facebook Share on Twitter. Here's what 30 New Englanders had to say.
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