THE PITCH by Robin Shwedo ©: Robin Shwedo, 2023 The summer I was 15, I obsessed about the Red Sox. I’d been a Boston fan for several years, but ‘69 was different. I had to have surgery on my knee; I’d hurt it playing basketball in a Catholic high school A senior and I, a lowly sophomore, were the two best players on the team. She had a scholarship to UConn, the only school nearby that gave girls…