Sport: Bye-Bye Boston

Celtics and Bruins may leave

Boston may be the home of the bean and the cod, but it is no longer the home of the Braves or the Patriots. Come 1983, it may not even be the home of the Bruins or Celtics. Boston pioneered the art of losing the modern baseball franchise in 1953, when the Braves jumped to Milwaukee. In 1971 the football Patriots skipped to Foxboro, Mass., an hour's traffic jam away. Those shifts brought murmurs of resistance from Bostonians, who consider themselves the nation's most rabid sports fans. But now...

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