Sox title strikes right note
One could have mistaken the hordes of sleep-deprived Red Sox fans yesterday for zombies. After all, it was Halloween — but the celebration around Boston was all about the Red Sox winning the World Series the previous night. Josh Kantor lived it, and he’s still living it, because he’s slept little in days. A Red Sox organist for 11 years, Kantor, who is also a library assistant at Harvard’s Loeb Music Library, called the game-six win “joyous and surreal.” But the show had to go on, and while the celebrations commenced, Kantor kept playing. “Because I was focused on a task, the magnitude of the victory hasn’t fully sunk in yet,” he said in an interview. After the Red Sox clinched, Kantor played until the last fans vacated Fenway Park, at which point “my colleagues and I took a celebratory stroll on the field,” he said. The Sox entered Kantor’s life 23 years ago. He...