Complex sentence: He has attracted moderate media attention for being the world's oldest Boston Red Sox fan; in 2004, that team, for the first time since 1918, when Mr. Hale was twenty-seven years old, won the World Series.
Split into simpler sentences: He has attracted moderate media attention for being the world's oldest Boston Red Sox fan. In 2004, that baseball team, for the first time since 1918 when Mr. Hale was twenty-seven years old, won the World Series.