John William Henry II was born on September 13, 1949 in Quincy, Illinois. His parents were soybean farmers, and he split his time growing up between Illinois and Arkansas. His asthmatic condition[4] at the age of 15 prompted his family to move to Apple Valley,California.[5] After his graduation from Victor Valley High School in Victorville, he attended Victor Valley College,[6] then the University of California (at Riverside, Irvine, and Los Angeles), where he majored in philosophy but did not graduate[7] — partly the result of performing on the road in two rock and rollbands, Elysian Fields and Hillary.[citation needed][8] "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_W._Henry


https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2013/08/03/john-w-henry-soft-spoken-businessman-with-an-appetite-for-risk/amp


" Perhaps Red Sox principal owner John Henry would like to give it a whirl. While Henry may not seem to be the most likely candidate to perform on stage, it wouldn't be a first for him. Fans who've read Seth Mnookin's Feeding the Monster, an exploration of the building of the 2004 Red Sox championship team, know that Henry, in college, played in a progressive rock band called Elysian Fields."

"The band’s main focus was a rock opera based on aliens from the Cassiopeia constellation. Band members also shaved their eyebrows to appear more in character"


https://www.google.com/amp/nesn.com/2009/08/would-john-henry-hop-on-stage-with-theo-epstein-and-peter-gammons/amp/


elysian fields, reportedly the site of the first organized american baseball game, is where maxwell's now stands ( 3rd base )

boston red sox and liverpool football club owner john henry played guitar in a college band called elysian fields in the early 70 s

" In April 2013, Maxwell's came in third inRolling Stone magazine's "Venues that Rock" list of the best clubs in America.[20] "


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s

ian mccolluch's dec 1991 setlist at maxwell's :
http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/ian-mcculloch/1991/maxwells-hoboken-nj-6bd3965e.html



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysian_Fields,_Hoboken,_New_Jersey


dan duqette who was fired as red sox gm two years before they won world series to break 86 year dry spell was from berkshire county and has started a semi pro club in the town where jim bouton, who wrote the infamous novel 'ball four' found the earliest u s mention of baseball in world history with the odd exception of jane austen -and a few others - mentioning it as a british game first

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/news/a-fans-desperate-plea-to-red-sox-owner-john-henry-20120914

"A unique British sport, known as British Baseball, is still played in parts of Wales and England. Although confined mainly to the cities of Cardiff, Newport and Liverpool, the sport boasts an annual international game between representative teams from the two countries."

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origins_of_baseball

winston churchill s mom jenny ( nee jerome ) + her cousin from cobble hill brooklyn picked the color royal purple for the williams college baseball team just before their game with harvard ?


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady_Randolph_Churchill



" The first intercollegiate baseball game took place in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, on July 1, 1859, between squads representing Amherst College and Williams College. Amherst won, 73–32. This game was one of the last played under an earlier version of the game known as "Massachusetts rules", which prevailed in New England until the "Knickerbocker Rules" (or "New York Rules") developed in the 1840s gradually became accepted.[1]  "


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/College_baseball



" Many of the players that Duquette drafted or signed were on the Red Sox 2004 World Series championship team. He is largely considered to have laid the groundwork for that team by signing and drafting players likeTim Wakefield, Johnny Damon, Jason Varitek,Manny Ramirez, Derek Lowe, and Kevin Youkilis.[6][11][12][13] In 2002, Duquette was dismissed from his general manager post less than 24 hours after the Red Sox had officially been sold to a new ownership group that included John W. Henry and Tom Werner.[9][11] "

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Duquette



" They also stopped off at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon, where McCulloch, in a twist of Lennon, declared the band “more popular than Henry the Fifth”. It was at the Shakespeare Theatre that they first unveiled The Killing Moon "

http://teamrock.com/feature/2017-04-12/the-story-behind-the-song-the-killing-moon-by-echo-the-bunnymen-1


"You have to understand that, prior to that, the facilities we had were awful," said Dalton native Jim Duquette, a former New York Mets and Baltimore Orioles front office executive who was a Williams baseball team captain in 1988. "Junior year, we had to play a lot of games at Mount Greylock [Regional High School] because the field they put us on had gotten flooded. "


http://www.berkshireeagle.com/stories/yankees-legendary-owner-also-a-williams-grad,135801