A flavour of home for Irish abroad

So this is it, John Updike’s lyric little bandbox in the heart of Boston. His description of Fenway Park remains both accurate — the preponderance of green sharpening the focus, no matter where you look — and a little vague.

What exactly is a bandbox, anyway?

Yesterday, of course, the baseball stadium housed the AIG Fenway Hurling Classic, having seen a college football game the previous evening.