Alan’s Army, A Nation Within a Nation
It takes a lot of help to have a web site with over 2,000 fans with whom you went to games or met along the way. Red Sox fans are the largest contingent with nearly 300 fans. Alan Gerofsky, whom I met on a Boston subway in 2007, is a big reason for my having experiences with so many Red Sox fans. Alan, who’s known as the Mayor of Section 17 at Fenway Park, is a Red Sox Pied Piper. He’s extremely personable and loves to speak to any fan he encounters, but most especially Red Sox fans. Since meeting Alan, I sit with him in Section 17 for at least two games a season and I annually join his group of friends for a Red Sox road series in a different city every season. Let’s see, so far I’ve been with them to Great American Ballpark in Cincinnati, Rogers Centre in Toronto, Safeco Field Field in Seattle and PNC Park in Pittsburgh. Ladies and gentleman, I hereby present to you my version of Alan’s Army, A Nation Within a Nation. Alan may not know all of them, but I met them because of him. Some are even Yankees fans.
