DEAR SUN SPOTS: On June 11, someone wrote to you about the man with the yellow earphones who sits up front at every Red Sox game.

I have also been watching him and wondering. You told us what he does and who he is, but my question is what is he listening to on the earphones. I can’t imagine why someone would go to the ball game with earphones.

Hope you can find out. Thanks for past answers. Really enjoy your column. — C., Rumford

ANSWER: For readers who missed that answer, which came from the Boston Globe, he is Jeremy Kapstein, the pioneer sports agent. He’s the former president/CEO of the San Diego Padres and has served as Larry Lucchino’s senior adviser for more than 10 years with the Red Sox and with the Padres before that.

Sun Spots wrote to the Red Sox publicity office, where Peter tried to help. He emailed Jeremy and asked him, but Jeremy declined to respond. So the mystery will continue.

One of the Sun Journal sports editors said some people listen to a radio broadcast of the game while watching, but unfortunately we’ll never know if that’s the case for Kapstein.

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I found some information for Joe in Lewiston (July 2), who was trying to track down the statistics for the first three Red Sox games he attended with his father sometime around 1964-65.

The correct answer would have been to go to www.retrosheet.org, more particularly this page for 1964 (http://tinyurl.com/a7gw5pe) and this one for 1965 (http://tinyurl.com/b54jr92).

Joe could go through those game logs and try to find the games that match his memory. The “BOX+PBP” link beside each game shows a box score and play-by-play.

I think it’s very likely the series that Joe was remembering was the July 2-4, 1965, weekend series (Friday to Sunday) in Fenway park vs. the Yankees, where the Yankees won the first two games and lost the third one. Earl Wilson didn’t pitch, but it otherwise matches all of the reader’s requirements. — Trent McCotter, treant985@gmail.com

ANSWER: This is the second time in a week that out-of-state readers have found their way to the column thanks to sunjournal.com and the Internet and supplied answers that Sun Spots could not find on her own. Thank you, Trent!

DEAR SUN SPOTS: I have about 15 or 16 trophies I have received over the years, mostly bowling trophies. Is there any place that takes them or wants them? I hate to throw them away.

Also, I agree with a poll I saw lately about sports on the Fox Network. I have a 60-inch TV, and you can just barely make out the scoreboard in the corner that tells the score, who’s winning, number of outs, runners on base, etc. Happens with NASCAR, too. The numbers run across the screen, so I can just barely make them out. It must be awful for someone with a small TV. Why are they so small? — CBS Fan, Dixfield

ANSWER: Last October a reader wrote in to say that the John F. Murphy Homes will take old trophies and reuse them. They are at 800 Center St., Auburn, 782-2726.

As for the small numbers, Sun Spots can only speculate that they want to leave as much room on the screen as possible for the live action. But if enough people write in and complain, they may adjust the size of those stats.

You can write to the main Fox Network (there are state affiliates as well): President Peter Liguori, Fox Broadcasting Co., P.O. Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, askfox@foxinc.com.

Sun Spots has had complaints about NASCAR’s presentation before, so here is its address as well: NASCAR, P.O. Box 2875, Daytona Beach, FL 32120, fanfeedback@nascar.com.

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