Really?

[rhu]

Listening to WCRB last evening, I heard this offer, read by "the voice of Fenway Park": for a donation of $86 you get Ken Burns's baseball documentary.

I can't figure out why $86. It's not the frequency of WGBH or WCRB. And the only connection I can think of between baseball in Boston and the number '86 is one that I would think people would want to forget.

Comments

[cazique.livejournal.com]

Maybe someone from Queens put that offer together.

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

It was 86 years between World Series victories. 1918-2004.

[cnoocy]

And I recall people saying at the time that the number had been redeemed.

[gnomi.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that was my guess, too.