Author: rianwatt@gmail.com (Rian Watt)

Tim Beckham was just 18 years old when the Rays plucked him out of the green-gold ranks of central Georgia’s Griffin High School with the first overall pick of the 2008 draft and placed the future of baseball’s youngest franchise on his slight shoulders. He’s spent the past decade trying to get over it.

Four hours before first pitch at Fenway Park on Sunday, a bright clear Boston morning in late summer, I noticed a woman moving quickly down Yawkey Way and doing something rather unusual. She was scattering fairy dust.