Lynne Smith of Wellesley, Massachusetts, has been a Red Sox fan for nearly 50 years.
She's a big fan. Perhaps even the biggest.
Smith has an entire wardrobe devoted to the Red Sox, including jackets, ponchos, socks and sneakers. Sox memorabilia dots her house, and her living room boasts a coffee table painted to look like Fenway Park, a chair that looks like a baseball, two Fenway seats, and a collection of wines named after former Sox players — “Clay Buchholz ChardonClay,” “Jon Lester CabernAce,” “Kevin Youkilis SauvignYoouuk Blanc.”
Her first-floor bathroom is entirely covered — floor to ceiling, all four walls — with a Fenway mural. Through the small round mirror above the sink — which is white with red laces, like a baseball — you can see the Citgo sign painted on the opposite wall.
To every game, she wears a bottle cap necklace with photos of the starting line-up pasted to it, and she wears an earring with a photo of the starting pitcher in her right ear.
Smith is best known for her now-famous hat, which looks like a miniature Fenway. It has earned her notoriety and a nickname: "Fenway Hat Lady." The Fenway hat has adorned her head at 29 of the 30 major league baseball parks.
“I have been to all 30 ballparks to see the Red Sox play,” she said. There is only one place she won’t wear it: Yankee Stadium.
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