A Visit With A The Red Sox Fan
Harry Forsdick
November 25, 2004

Earlier this week, Will and and I paid a visit to Nancy Hollomon to see some of her Red Sox Memorabilia. And boy, what a collection! For Nancy, the ultimate Sox fan, this year has been the apex of her Red Sox fan-career.

A couple of weeks ago, Nancy sent me a message saying that she wondered if Will and I would like to come over and see a Red Sox scorecard that she had been given by Trot Nixon and his wife Kathryn. "Sure", I said and so we arrived at Nancy's home in Brookline which was adorned with the appropriate door decoration for the season.

Once we got our coats off, Nancy brought us into her living room where she showed us the Score Card. She gave us a little background on score cards. For every game, Major League Baseball prints up two official scorecards. One is kept for the record and the other is given to the manager.

A little more background. Nancy has season tickets and her seats are quite close to where the wives of the Red Sox players sit. Over the years, she has become quite friendly with Kathryn Nixon, Trot's wife. Quite friendly to the extent that she gets invited to Kathryn and Trot's son Chase's birthday parties.

So, back to the scorecard story. When Trot returned from being on the injured disabled list, he had a really good first outing. Terry Francona, the manager of the Red Sox decided to give Trot the official score card for that first game. Trot came home with the scorecard and said to Kathryn, "How about giving this to our good friend Nancy Hollomon?". Kathryn thought that was a great idea and to make a long story short, Trot had the scorecard signed by each of the players and Kathryn had it framed. They presented it to Nancy in the Club House.


Needless to say, Nancy is very proud of this piece of Red Sox history. But it turns out that this is not the only interesting piece of history that she owns. She has a basket with many different signed baseballs. The one that I thought was the most impressive was one that Nancy's late husband Herb Hollomon got signed when he was a young boy by the entire Red Sox team, including Babe Ruth.

Well, Nancy had shared a lot of her Red Sox stories with us over the years and about all we could do was to tell her about our trip to the Baseball Hall of Fame a couple of weeks ago where we got to see a lot of Red Sox World Series artifacts, including Kurt Schilling's spikes he wore during game two of the World Series (sans bloody sock).

In addition, I offer up one of my favorite newspaper front pages the day after the Sox beat the Yankees.

As we left, Nancy told us that with all of the other bad things happening in the World, she has not forgotten the exciting moments we Bostonians have had this most wonderful Red Sox World Series season!