The Boston Press in '68 ... and Every Year

In "The Short Season," a 1968 New Yorker article, Roger Angell describes the Boston press during Red Sox spring training in 1968:

Morning training sessions at Chain-O'-Lakes Stadium, in Winter Haven, were studied with a mixture of excessive optimism and unjustified despondency by the immense Boston press corps, which has traditionally been made uneasy by success.