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Opening Day At Fenway ParkOur man George Kimball on Opening Day at Fenway Park circa 1971:...

A One-Way Ticket to PalookavilleBack in 1998, Tom Scocca wrote a good one, "The Mayor of Palookaville," for the Boston Phoenix:...

Ryan Glasspiegel runs through sportswriting's reaction to the sad death of the Boston Phoenix, where Charles P. Pierce and Bill Simmons both got their careers started (and where the infamous George Kimball served as a writer and editor for many years). The Phoenix folded yesterday after a 46-year ru...

Read Bill Simmons Before He Was The Sports Guy, From The <em>Boston Phoenix</em> Vault

The internet's not written in pencil, it's written in ink, or something. If you've spent your entire writing life online, it's likely that some Googlebot has crawled your pages, archiving every word you've ever written. But older writers who were young hacks shouldn't have to worry: their words were...