Hayden Bird
Sports StaffHayden is a sports writer who has worked for Boston.com since 2016. He covers the Bruins, Celtics, Patriots, and Red Sox, but would love it if Boston became a soccer town. Along with coverage of day-to-day news events, he's written extensively about historical Boston sports moments, including a history of "bandit" runners in the Boston Marathon. His 2021 piece chronicling "How a comedy of errors cost the Red Sox Carlton Fisk and Fred Lynn in the 1980-81 offseason" won first place in the New England Newspaper & Press Association's "Sports Feature Story" category.
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