we almost lost fenway. the red sox under the previous ownership were working on plans to replace it. -- there ise team no certainty what would have happened -- but ultimately, they sold the team. decidedequent ownership that was crazy and they had a great asset. if only they could upgrade it -- modernize it generally denies it gently little bit, which turned out to be the case. chicago is beautifully integrated in to the neighborhood. it remains one of the most beloved places there is. on the other hand, so are other places we were not lucky enough to keep. it is ironic that everts field in brooklyn was lost. it could be spectacular today. it went in the 1950's partly because nobody cared about brooklyn and the fan base had moved to the suburbs. today, everyone wants to be in brooklyn. ballpark that was even better than wrigley and fenway, it would probably be the nicest place of all. it is always many factors. location is a big part of it. >> i know about the multipurpose teams like pittsburgh and cincinna

we almost lost fenway. we had the red sox, under previous ownership, working on plans to replace it. and then the team in the end -- there is no certainty what happened, but they were serious about doing it. ultimately, they sold the team, the subsequent ownership, decided it was crazy and they had a sort of great asset that if they could only upgrade and modernize gently, a little bit, what turned out to be absolutely the case. chicago is beautifully integrated in the neighborhood and it remains one of the most beloved places there is. on the other hand, so are other places that we were not lucky enough to keep. it's ironic that abuts field in brooklyn was lost, because it could be spectacular today. and now, in the fifties, partly because no one cared about brooklyn and the fan base and move to the suburbs and so on. today, everybody wants to be in brooklyn. >> yes. >> and if it had a ballpark that actually in some ways was even better than wrinkly and fenway, in its heart, it was probably the nicest plac

fenway park is a good example of that. >> and we're going to get to that. you're going to tell me all about it. speaking of immigrants, you have interesting passages where you talk about bifurcated spectators. one-half of this world is represented by a german immigrant who bought the st. louis browns in the 1880s. could you introduce people to him. >> it's a great story. this is a missouri story even though it's the other side of the state. chris was a german immigrant, a tavern owner -- >> i'm sorry. go ahead. i interrupted you. he had a beer station in the outfield of -- >> he bought the st. louis browns because he thought it would be a good way to sell more beer. he opened up a branch of his tavern. >> the balls would roll in among the chairs. >> and then he had -- he was good at cross marketing because he also had the waiters in the actual tavern dressed up in browns uniforms. so he was pushing both directions. >> talk to the new royals ownership about putting a bar in there. >> and he billed sportsman park as the coney island of the west. and it was al

and that energy, both at home in yankee stadium or on the road at fenway, they both energize you. me and other players of a spring training game. they call it the b game, it's 8:00 in the morning, a simulated game and there's nothing. but the sounds of baseball are magical, the sound of the ball going into the mitt, the sound of the crack of the wood. baseball is just the best. >> sebastion: it is the best. and there's also a sound i don't think we're going to hear this year, which is spitting. i don't think they're allowing any type of dip or anything like that. now i know you were a gum guy. is that something, is that a superstition? or what was that? >> let me tell you. of all the things that i would have the hardest adjustment with, baseball players are very superstitious, but not chewing gum while playing baseball, that would be a real score breaker for me. i probably went through 36 pieces of gum every game i played. >> sebastion: 36 pieces of gum? every time i have two pieces of gum i get a little gas. what was going on with 36 pieces of gum? >> it was this. i will take thr

a drone appeared over fenway park during the red sox game. the umpires stopped the dame and pulled players off the field. about four minutes later the drone flew away, and the game resumed. >>> frightening video from a state park in south dakota where a bison knocked a woman unconscious. she was taking pictures near a calf when the adult bison charged her tossing her in the air. she is expected to make a full recovery. park officials say people must keep their distance. >> they can turn on a dime, and they can pick up their speed in just the flick of your fingers, you know, so i mean so they're not like cattle. they're a lot more aggressive and a lot quicker on their feet. >> to be safe officials say visitors should stay at least 100 yards away from bison. >>> the justice department is accusing yale university of discriminating against student applicants. a two-year investigation found yale rejected asian-american and white applicants based on their race. the doj is ordering yale to stop using race or national origin in the admissions possess

park, but no fans at fenway park.he impossible dream. >> like secretariat going down the stretch at belmont, these red sox are coming on. two wins in a row. speaking of momentum, speaking of momentum, i do think that, perhaps, the president may have been a bit enraged yesterday morning after getting the ratings from his final night, but also the polling out of abc news/"the washington post," showing that, boy, his approval rating went down and joe biden's went down over the two conventions. >> his tweet storm certainly showed he is reacting to something, but there is fresh new polling following both the democratic and republican national conventions, showing president trump's favorite favorability slipping while joe biden's steadily climbs. in the latest abc news/ipsos poll, trump's favorability sits at 31%, and 59% of people have unfavorable people of president. 46% have a favorable view of joe biden, up six points since before the dnc. 40% have an unfavorable view of the former vice president. when looking at presid

of positives, have been able to quarantine and isolate those and are going to sequentially do the fenway park you'll, staff and -- and students in -- in waves, if you will. it's been successful. >> that's really interesting. how concerned though are you just broadly locking at what you're dealing with at the moment, how concerned are you about the five active clusters that we're hearing about at colleges in kansas? >> quite concerned. some of the patterns are already emerging and granted classes just started on monday. we know the ones tested positive probably brought it in from their home communities. i know we'll have more outbreaks than just the five but it's a big reminder. in the kansas our number of coronavirus is still going the wrong direction. collegeses and universities, community colleges, will not be safe islands as long as community numbers are going up. >> kansas state is one of schools that's facing an outbreak, a cluster, and from what i see it's linked to a from a erpt it. there's other schools with clust centurylinked to the greek system as well. doctor, what can you do

i've often said sometimes when i sit with my boys at fenway park , i go to a number of games and i love it but sometimes i can close my eyes and imagine on a young girl with my father by my side at and its field with roy campanella down there or jackie robinson and somehow then when i see my sons sitting there where my father once said it's almost like an invisible loyalty and love that links them . they never saw their grandfather for all the stories i told you come to know his heart and soul and baseball does that and that's why i love it so much. >> how do you think history will view the war iniraq . >> was going to be hard for the war in iraq to be viewed in a positive way is whether or not it was a rationale for going in and even forgetting the weapons of mass destruction clearly was not the rationale but if there was a larger goal the administration had in mind to create a stronghold of democracy in the middle east, history will have to determine whether that was a good thing but if you don't tell the people what your purpose is it's hard for the people to sustain support for the

what did it feel to be like in fenway park? [laughter] >> having been a passionate baseball fan all my life and having only experienced one victory with the brooklyn dodgers in 1955, and then obviously i chose another team after the dodgers abandoned us and went to california and i chose harvard almost like falling in love again with the boston red sox and had all those years where we lost and lost and we lost and almost one just like the brooklyn dodgers but finally we win in 04 and 07 but we have these season tickets to the game so we were at every game and every playoff and every division and to be in our town and see them winning and share it with boston, that is what is so great about baseball and somebody asked me what would you have done if the dodgers had been against the red sox and how would you have dealt with a divided loyalty but i thought about it in my answer was that the dodgers were my first love and my father growing up in brooklyn talking about how to keep score as many of you know and that's where my love of

sometimes when iit with my boys at fenway park -- we have season tickets, and i love it.an sit this with them and sometimes close my eyes and imagine that i'm a young girl once more with my father by my side with roe camp campanella dn there or jackie robinson. somehow when i see my sons sitting where my father once sat, it's almost like an unvisible loyalty and love. they never saw my father, their grandfather, but through all the stories i have told, they've come to know his heart and soul. baseball does that and that's, i think, why i love out so much. >> host: how do you think history will view the war in iraq? >> guest: i think what's going to be very hard for the war in iraq to be viewed in a positive way whether or not there was a rationale for going in thering, each for getting the weapons of mass destruction which clearly was not the rationale, but if there was a larger goal to create a stronghold of democracy in the middle east. history-to determine whether that was a good thing. if you don't tell the people what your purpose is, i think it's very hard for peopl

i admired him from afar and went to harvard because it was near fenway park.t a good was less game and wrote about his last game which he managed 42 years old as he was, he hit a home run as his final signature prayed and again he circled the bases . did not to present . he had an adversarial relationship with the fans, many of them and certainly with the sportswriters. i think it is true that his behavior was often related and rambunctious and really offensive. he offended enough boston writers but is that you have been said, the voted him i think nowhere on the ballot as it mvp. because he was clearly the most leader and all in statistics. and yes. host: he was the bad boy of sports. john updike: and also he was the bad boy in time in the beginning to tattle on bad boys. but somehow, the babes greatness and his charm and innocence in a way even though it was a good boy. this roughness was moved over the press . to know how much was supporting a babes drinking or hot dog eating. her messing around with women but certainly, ted was a perfectionist. very sensit

sometimes when i sit with my voice at fenway park then i can imagine i'm a young girl with my father by my side and then i see my son sitting there it's like the invisible loyalty. . . . . doris: and weapons of mass distraction which was clearly not the rational but that if there a logical that the administration had in mind to create a stronghold the middle east of democracy, they would have to determine whether that there was bursting freedoms of the people to enter purposes, i think is very hard for the people to ask for for the war predict and was interesting, even lincoln question the rational saying that the president had is gated for his own purposes. always casted out. we have a lot of territory of the questions about how we started it really think the more importantly it influences the rationale was corrected some level, then obviously the fact that we had prepared for it in well enough enough numbers. my son first got there for example, if the mission was accomplished we had people, he was so excited and iraqi, he was going to be at home and within days the security broke d