Scott Van Voorhis has an excellent remembrance of the late Jack Connors, who, among many things as a behind-the-scenes civic leader in Boston, helped save Fenway Park. … Meanwhile, Dan Kennedy looks at Connors’s two attempts to buy the Boston Globe. Just as well they were unsuccessful attempts. Connors et gang would have paid a ridiculously high price for the Globe compared to the later bargain-basement deal John Henry got from the NYT.

Update – From a reader: “The Fenway story brought back memories… sketches of the new stadium that was to seat 44,000 (I recall an upper deck), Mindich blasting away weekly in the Phoenix.   It was three-cornered newspaper war, which I read daily on the way to downtown on the Orange Line.  Great stuff and a happy ending for the team and the Fenway.   Although I would like to know when the bridge over the Pike will reopen to two real lanes of traffic (probably never…)”