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TAKE A WIFF
Pat O'Connor's Little Fenway Park, complete with Citgo sign and a mini Green Monster, is a wiffle ball enthusiast's field of dreams. This weekend the Essex diamond hosts its third benefit for the Travis Roy Foundation. Roy was rendered a quadriplegic after an injury sustained during the first 11 seconds of his debut game as a Boston University hockey player.
The tourney supports spinal cord injury survivors and research. Teams from as far as Boston and Staten Island paid $500 a pop to compete. The Zambonis play up their hockey rock at 4 p.m. Saturday, and for $5, spectators can live out their own Fenway fantasies by swinging a yellow bat at plastic balls pitched by Red Sox vet Bill Monbouquette.
VERMONT WIFFLE BALL TOURNAMENT, Friday to Sunday, August 13-15, Little Fenway Park, Essex, Friday, 4-10 p.m. Saturday, 8:30 a.m. -10 p.m. Sunday, 8:30 a.m. - 6 p.m. $3. lnfo, 434-3470.
Appeared in Seven Days (VT) - August 2004 |
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