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By Sara Brown, Town Correspondent Good news for food-truck fans in the Fenway: the neighborhood is slated to receive the trendy mobile eateries as part of Boston's recently approved food truck initiative . In a letter sent out to local property owners and businesses, the city said that 140 Fenway on Hemenway Street has been selected as a food truck site after a city survey, with the area chosen "for the opportunity it potentially presents...

No developer has managed to build anything atop the Massachusetts Turnpike in Boston since Copley Place was built in the early 1980s. A mega-development outside Kenmore Square has the potential to change that record, and open up long sweeps of the Pike for redevelopment. For its work in unlocking acres of previously un-developable real estate, the Fenway Center project has invited a typically brutal Boston reward — it has an abutter throwing up roadblocks and nursing petty grievances in court.

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By Justin A. Rice, Globe Correspondent Fenway stole 12 bases en route to defeating Charlestown, 8-2, at Ryan Field Monday afternoon to qualify for the state tournament for the first time in eight years. The Panthers (9-7, 7-3 Boston City League South) even stole home. Junior infielder Eddie Santos avoided the tag at the plate to tie the game at 2 in the fifth inning. "It's mad exciting," said Santos, who logged three steals on the day. "It's really exciting. You're out there on third and you don't know when coach will tell you to run. You don't know when you're...

OnLocationVacations.com reports that the crew filming the Adam Sandler comedy "Donny's Boy" on the Cape has built a small Fenway Park-style baseball stadium at Wixon Middle School in South Dennis. Leighton Meester , who stars in the comedy with Sandler and Andy Samberg , continues to tweet about filming the movie, and Sandler continues to pop up around Osterville, where he's staying with his family during the shoot.

We were on a packed Green Line car headed to a daytime Red Sox game. A little boy about 5 years old was standing with his dad, scrunched in and asking various forms of the age-old "When will we be there?" query. His dad answered: seven more stops, six more stops, etc., but the boy was counting each time the car slowed down and then lurched forward as a "stop," so there were many "stops" as the car made its way to Kenmore Square. Finally the dad explained, "This must be a new driver checking to make sure the brakes work.

When Josh Beckett mercifully made his exit Thursday night, it wasn't the boos that were most noticeable. It was the fan immediately behind the Red Sox' dugout, swinging his arms as if he were swinging a golf club. The fact that Beckett spent an off day playing golf when he was presumably resting a strained latissimus muscle had struck the same sore spot as the chicken-and-beer situation from the Sox' meltdown last September, particularly with the Sox returning home from Kansas City having dropped two of three to the team with the worst home record in baseball.

Most Boston sports fans at this hour are having a love-hate relationship with the Celtics and the Red Sox. They love the Celtics. And they hate the Red Sox. It's amazing. And the Sox are hoping it's a temporary condition. Widely perceived as gritty and the embodiment of team spirit, the Celtics are in the second round of the NBA playoffs and Saturday night played host to the Philadelphia 76ers at TD Garden. A few miles down Storrow Drive, the basement-dwelling Red Sox played the Cleveland Indians, hoping to avoid more ugly/awkward...

Globe photo / John Tlumacki Here's Terry Francona from earlier today. He received a standing ovation from the crowd and chants of "Tito, Tito. "

The success of the two Dropkick Murphys concerts at Fenway means we could see more such shows in the future. We're told the Red Sox are exploring the possibility of putting on a series of smaller-scale concerts at the ballpark when the team is on the road. The shows, which would be in addition to the Bruce Springsteen -size extravaganzas the ballpark hosts each summer, would feature acts too popular to play the Bank of America Pavilion (capacity 5,200) but not big enough to fill the Comcast Center (capacity 19,900)

Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band announced Saturday that they will play a second concert at Fenway Park on Aug. 15, according to online ticket distributor Live Nation. The band added a second performance "due to the overwhelming demand, pending city approval," said the release. Springsteen is also scheduled to play a show at Fenway on Aug. 14 and at Gillette Stadium on Aug. 18. Tickets will go on sale June 2 at 10 a.m. for the Aug. 15 performance.

One of the surest signs that spring has sprung is Party in the Park, the annual benefit for the Emerald Necklace Conservancy. Held yesterday under an enormous – and somewhat overheated – tent in the Fenway, the event attracted hundreds of people, many of them sporting a stylish chapeau. (We spied Yolanda Cellucci , Tonya Chen Mezrich , Beth Dickerson , Krista Ference , Anne Hawley , Ted Cutler , Norman Leventhal , Jan Brett , Debby Kelly , and Sukey Forbes , among many others.)

The home team will definitely win Sunday as some 2,000 heroes will cross the plate at the venerable ballpark in the 2012 Run-Walk to Home Base, including veterans of the Iraq/ Afghanistan wars who suffered combat stress or a traumatic brain injury. Proceeds will benefit the Red Sox Foundation and Massachusetts General Hospital Home Base Program, which provides help to the veterans and their families. The Globe profiles four courageous veterans who bare their souls in the hopes that others may get help.

(Globe file photo/Jim Davis) Foul balls have a magical way of connecting fans to a game. By John M. Emery Baseball encourages the collection of small moments into fond recollections that exceed the sum of their parts. It's not unlike the red stitches that bind an odd geometry of leather and tension into an immaculate sphere. Two decades ago, I saw a fifth of all the Red Sox games at Fenway -- 10 percent of a season's total. I continued a tradition of opening and closing days with my daughter while sharing about half the 16 games with a new...

On a day when the Red Sox strolled past the Indians, 12-1, it only seemed fitting the Fenway Park crowd of 37,611 enjoyed a Mother's Day Walk in the Park afterward. The Sox Sunday gave manager Bobby Valentine a present on his 62d birthday by extending their home winning streak to three, improving to 7-11 at home and 15-19 overall. A 12-hit attack was highlighted by Will Middlebrooks's solo homer in the third and Jarrod Saltalamacchia's two-run homer in a six-run seventh.

Most Boston sports fans at this hour are having a love-hate relationship with the Celtics and the Red Sox. They love the Celtics. And they hate the Red Sox. It's amazing. And the Sox are hoping it's a temporary condition. Widely perceived as gritty and the embodiment of team spirit, the Celtics are in the second round of the NBA playoffs and Saturday night played host to the Philadelphia 76ers at TD Garden. A few miles down Storrow Drive, the basement-dwelling Red Sox played the Cleveland Indians, hoping to avoid more ugly/awkward...

Those who attended the Red Sox’s inaugural “Neighborhood Night’’ on Wednesday got to hear a rendition of the national anthem by New England Conservatory grad and amateur opera singer Alexandra Lang (above right, with Fenway affairs manager Beth Krudys ). Lang was discovered by the Red Sox because of her hostessing job at neighborhood spot Burtons Grill.

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff The Yankees-Red Sox game will be on NESN, YES and MLB Network. The pre-game ceremony will be on NESN and MLB Network along with MLB.com and RedSox.com. Use two screens and hang out here for updates and observations from Fenway, too. We'll have complete coverage all day long of the ceremony and the game.

By Peter Abraham, Globe Staff Fred Lynn threw out the first pitch at Fenway on Friday night, zipping it in to Dustin Pedroia as the crowd cheered. I mentioned on Twitter that every kid with a glove in New England in 1975 wanted to be just like Lynn and a bunch of people responded with memories of that season and how he was their favorite player growing up. It seemed like a good idea for a blog post. So, who was your favorite baseball player growing up and why?

At last, something to look forward to at Fenway Park. Bruce Springsteen announced on his website Friday that he and the E Street Band have a return engagement at the ballpark Aug. 14. (The site says the show is "pending final approval by the City of Boston," but something tells us that won't be an issue.) The Boss, you'll recall, played the first-ever rock show at Fenway back in September 2003. Springsteen, who's touring in support of his new CD, "Wrecking Ball," is also playing at Gillette Stadium Aug. 18. Tickets for the Fenway show will be available at Live...