In June of 1962, Tony Conigliaro of Swampscott, MA, was a star outfielder for St. Mary’s High School of Lynn. By April of 1964, the 19-year-old Conigliaro was a starting outfielder for the Boston Red Sox. In his first at-bat at Fenway Park, Tony Conigliaro hit the first pitch thrown to him for a home run. In his rookie year he belted 24 roundtrippers to se [...]
When the calendar flipped to 2018, it ushered in the 148th consecutive season of professional baseball in Boston! Boston’s 148 consecutive seasons are the most in major league baseball—in fact the most in the world. Chicago is second with 146 consecutive seasons, and we can thank Mrs. O’Leary’s cow for shutting down Chicago baseball in 1872, leaving us with [...]
My dear friend Frank Sullivan passed away in his home on Kauai, HI, on January 19, 2016, just four days before his 86th birthday. Frank was a big league pitcher for 11 years, a two-time American League All Star, and a member of the Red Sox Hall of Fame. More importantly, he was a wonderful husband, father, grandfather, uncle and friend. To say he will be missed is an extreme understatement. (see article below)
Dave Henderson, who starred in the Red Sox dramatic Game Five victory over the California Angels in the 1986 American League Championship Series, died on December 27, 2015, in Seattle, WA. Henderson died of massive heart failure one month after he received a kidney transplant. He was only age 57—much too young. (See article below)
If you had asked portrait artist Norman Rockwell to paint a picture of the quintessential major league catcher, he would have drawn Carlton “Pudge” Fisk on the mound at Fenway Park, catcher’s mask atop his head, waiting patiently for the relief pitcher to arrive. (See article below)