Mitt Romney’s Fenway visit prompts renewed look at 2004 World Series remark
Mitt Romney’s visit to Fenway Park earlier this week has prompted renewed focus on a 2006 comment in which he reportedly told an Air Force pilot he was in Fenway Park when the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series in 86 years.
If he was, it was by himself.
The team won the clinching Game 4 of the 2004 World Series not in Boston but at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, home of the St. Louis Cardinals.
David Bernstein of the Boston Phoenix noted the discrepancy in a blog post today, after someone connected Romney’s visit to Fenway this week with the former Massachusetts governor’s supposed attendance at the World Series clincher.
Bernstein highlighted a blog post from May 30, 2006, written by an Air Force captain from New York who had flown Romney and two other governors on a day trip to Baghdad, Iraq.
“Romney was on the flight deck with us for the takeoff, and not knowing Mitt Romney from Knute Rockne, I asked him who he was,’’ “Jay’’ wrote for the blog, posted in Newsday. “When he told me he was Massachusetts’s governor, I politely asked him to leave the flight deck, declaring the cockpit off limits to all Red Sox fans.
“He laughed and made a few cracks my way, regarding the Yanks, and we hit it off pretty well. I asked him if he was at Fenway when the Sox finally won the World Series, and with a huge boyish grin he replied, ‘Yes I was.’’’
Romney was at the ballpark on Monday for an interview with ABC News and to watch the Patriot’s Day game against the Tampa Bay Rays.
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