I grew up in Baltimore, age 5-16. I moved away to college in Massachusetts, then went to Minnesota, Philly, New York. I've spent all of 10 days in Baltimore since '76. I relate this prosaic itinerary in order to explain that I will always be a Baltimore Orioles fan. Win or lose, and they have lost for 11 years now, though I have also seen three championships, I love the Orioles. Loyalty to a childhood team is a mark of character that I look for in my friends. Those who don't stick with their team as adults I find fishy.
What are we to make of the following:
1938: Hark the herald angels sing, Alan Dershowitz is born in Brooklyn
1959: Dershowitz leaves New York for New Haven, then Washington, D.C.
1964: Dershowitz, 26, is appointed at Harvard Law
Sept. 12, 2008: Dershowitz throws out the first ball at the Red Sox-Toronto game at Fenway Park. He is wearing a Red Sox jersey and a Red Sox cap.
The only excuse he might have is that the Brooklyn Dodgers left for LA in 1958, just as Dersh was leaving for New Haven. I bet Finkelstein is a Mets or Yankees fan.
