Boston, where sport greets you at every turn

It didn’t take the hurlers of Dublin, Tipperary, Clare and Galway long to discover Boston’s list of priorities last Friday when they landed for the Fenway Classic Super 11s.

As you roll down from Logan Airport you’re confronted with the tunnel to bring you into the city itself, complete with its impressive relief of a baseball player in full swing at the entrance.

That’s Ted Williams of the Ted Williams Tunnel, the man who came to play for the Boston Red Sox with a simple wish: that people would watch him walk down the street and say, ‘there goes the greatest hitter that ever played the game’.