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Fenway vendors bring World Series to Dana-Farber
With the Boston Red Sox in St. Louis for the World Series, legendary Fenway Park peanut hawker Rob Barry and a team of canary yellow-clad Aramark vendors burst into the Jimmy Fund Clinic on Tuesday, Oct. 26, 2004, in an effort to bring patients and families a taste of the World Series.
Barry, who is best known for his unerring peanut-bag-tossing accuracy, appears on a Trivial Pursuit card because one of his past cross-field heaves forced an umpire to call time-out. Whether a customer is one or two sections away, Barry — who often navigates his way through a section by walking on the backs of chairs — virtually never misses his mark.
Legendary Fenway Park peanut hawker Rob Barry, left, and his fellow Aramark vendors recently brought a taste of the World Series to the Jimmy Fund Clinic.
"This is great," he said, between high-fives with pediatric patients. "I even brought a few Trivial Pursuit cards to hand out to the kids."
In addition to giving out free popcorn, cotton candy, Cracker Jack, World Series Red Sox T-shirts and hats, and other ballpark treats — all courtesy of Aramark Managed Services — the Fenway hawkers led the clinic kids in a resolute rendition of "Take Me Out to the Ballgame."
After spending time with pediatric patients, the Fenway vendors visited the adult clinics.
"With the Red Sox in St. Louis and World Series tickets at Fenway being so hard to come by, this is the closest many patients and families will get to the World Series," said Karen Conley, RN, MS, AOCN, nurse program manager for Pediatric Oncology. "Thanks to Aramark and the vendors, we were able to bring Fenway to the kids and families, who thoroughly enjoyed themselves."
