100 year-old Sox fan gets called up

BOSTON (NBC) - A Connecticut man is set to fulfill a life-long dream this weekend at the tender age of 100. He's going to be a Red Sox bat boy.

Arthur Giddon will take the field at Fenway Park this weekend, when the Red Sox take on the Yankees.

Tickets to the game were the only thing the life-long baseball lover wanted for his hundredth birthday. That and the chance to be a bat boy for the first batter.

He'll get his birthday wish during the team's batting practice.

And he won't be hard to spot. He’ll be sporting a "Big Pappy" number 100 on his jersey.

He does have some experience at this, over 85 years ago. Giddon was a bat boy for the Boston Braves back in 1922 and 1923.