This is Planet Money from NPR.

It is officially springtime, which means that along with looming tax deadlines and pollen

in the air, it is also the start of something more hopeful.

Baseball season.

It came a little bit later than planned this year after a contentious month-long lockout

pushed back opening day.

But Major League Baseball's club owners and its players union finally reached an agreement.

In honor of this glorious time of year, the crack of the bat, the smell of sizzling hot

dogs, we are replaying a classic episode from 2016.

It's about another epic face-off that happens during each game.

This one off the field up in the stands.

Robert Smith and Nick Fountain take us to Fenway Park.

First pitch, Robert, welcome to Fenway Park.

It is a beautiful freezing cold evening in April in Boston.

So the reason we're here today is not to do the tape-a-bay-rays Red Sox play-by-play.

But which we certainly could do.

Now we are here because our beloved producer, Nick Fountain, used to work here in this stadium.

It was one of his first jobs ever and what'd you do?

What do you want?

Everyone turned around, everyone was like, I want that water.

It was one of the hardest jobs because I was running up and down the stairs selling hot

dogs selling cracker jacks selling peanuts selling popcorn.

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