Tag Archives: Leigh Montville

Revisiting Boston Garden, ‘The Old Barn on Causeway Street’

Posted on November 29, 2021 by Campaign Outsider

The building was forty-one years old [in 1969]. Hard years. In a cramped and shopworn corner of the city, one flight up from the train station, surrounded by elevated subway tracks and an elevated highway that kept sunshine and clean … Continue reading →

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Ted Williams’ Former Florida Home Gone Fishin’ for a Buyer

Posted on January 28, 2017 by Campaign Outsider

The Splendid Splinter’s old fishing shack is back on the market. Well, maybe not shack. From Friday’s Wall Street Journal Mansion section: Ted Williams’s Florida Fishing Spot Goes on the Market In the Florida Keys, the onetime home of baseball … Continue reading →

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Tag Archives: Leigh Montville

Revisiting Boston Garden, ‘The Old Barn on Causeway Street’

Ted Williams’ Former Florida Home Gone Fishin’ for a Buyer

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