Red Sox, Nationals soak in the Naval Academy experience

Midshipmen clamor for autographs from Boston Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia before an exhibition game Saturday at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Patrick Semansky / AP

By The Boston Globe

April 2, 2017

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ANNAPOLIS, Md. — The norm for the Red Sox when they depart Fort Myers is to head to Boston or an opponent’s home for the start of the regular season.

Last year the Red Sox played two exhibition games in baseball-starved Montreal. This year, it was Nationals Park, where the game was postponed on Friday, and the Naval Academy on Saturday, where some 1,000 midshipmen in their dress blues jammed into quaint Max Bishop Stadium to watch the Red Sox and Nationals in the Naval Academy Baseball Classic.

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