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Here’s a Boston pop quiz for you. What do Edward Everett Hale, Charles Sumner and Dom DiMaggio have in common?
Answer: They are all subjects of public statuary here.
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The idea of a statue depicting the greatCeltics [team stats]center had been floated before, but it picked up steam when President Barack Obama joined the club recently.
A reasonable person can question the wisdom of erecting monuments or naming public works after men paid good money to play boys’ games, but in Boston that train has already left North Station.
We have statues of Ted Williams and Bobby Orr, “The Teammates” statue of DiMaggio, Williams, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr, and a tunnel named after Williams.
All white, like the Red Sox [team stats] before Pumpsie Green, but who’s counting?
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