There is a great article about the Red Sox in today's Los Angeles Times:

"It's another typical Red Sox season, a clubhouse full of comedy and drama and a lineup full of thunderous bats that has the defending World Series champions in first place. On a luminous Sunday morning at the end of July, the Back Bay stirs as the first black and gray luxury sedans glide over the pitted pavement, between the stores with jerseys on racks and the bars with jerseys in frames. Fathers hold the hands of their little girls, whose pigtails are threaded through the backs of their Red Sox caps, a look that is altogether Boston. Young men bend at the neck and fold pizza slices in half, and orangy grease streams from the pinched ends and pools on paper plates, which are set atop the foulest of garbage cans...There is nothing quite like the perimeter of Fenway Park on game day, the Red Sox in first place, the New York Yankees looking quite fragile, smoke pushing barbecue aromas through the crowds, the shadows shortening toward the first pitch..."

Read the full article "Nuts and Bolts" by Tim Brown