Boston Fans Source & Resource for Baseball History

Celebrating 154 Consecutive Seasons of Professional Baseball in Boston!

Boston Fans Source & Resource for Baseball History

Celebrating 153 Consecutive Seasons of Professional Baseball in Boston!

About Herb Crehan

Herb Crehan is in his 29th season as a Contributing Writer and MC of Red Sox public service presentations. Herb has written more than 150 feature articles for RED SOX MAGAZINE. He has authored three books on the Red Sox, including The Impossible Dream 1967 Red Sox: Birth of Red Sox Nation, which was released in November 2016, and contributed to five others. He speaks frequently in the Boston area on Red Sox history. He is the publisher of this website, which is dedicated to the preservation of Boston baseball history. He speaks frequently on Red Sox history at Councils On Aging and community organizations. Comments and suggestions for future articles may be submitted at his website.

OPS IS GREAT…BUT MOPS IS TOPS!

By |2020-03-22T16:27:51-04:00January 6th, 2014|Categories: Statistics|Tags: , |

A New Statistic for a New Offensive Era By: Herb Crehan with Jackson Dunnell OPS, on-base percentage plus slugging average, has achieved acceptance as the single-best offensive measure of a player’s value to his team.  On-base percentage quantifies a player’s ability to get on base, whether it is through a hit, a walk or a hit-by-pitch.  Slugging average use [...]

THE THREE-TIME WORLD CHAMPION BOSTON RED SOX

By |2020-03-22T16:43:47-04:00December 14th, 2013|Categories: Playoffs|Tags: , |

Raise your hand if you thought the Boston Red Sox would win the 2013 World Championship when spring training came to an end in March.  And keep it up if you thought the Red Sox would win three World Championships in the next ten seasons right after the Yankee’s Aaron Boone broke our hearts in Game Seven of the 2003 ALCS! The triumphs of the past ten seasons [...]

bostonbaseballhistory.com Interview With Forbes

By |2020-03-23T19:17:47-04:00November 5th, 2013|Categories: Blog|

My interview on the 2013 Improbable Dream Boston Red Sox and its place in Boston baseball history was published by Forbes on November 4, 2013.  Warning to Yankee fans: you may not like reading that the Red Sox have been the dominant team of the first two decades of the 20th and 21st century! www.forbes.com A special thank you goes to Richard M. Salsman for u [...]

Trot Nixon: The Ultimate Dirt Dog Remembers 2004

By |2020-03-22T17:09:24-04:00October 27th, 2013|Categories: 2004 World Championship, Trot Nixon|Tags: , |

Former Red Sox right fielder Trot Nixon was the ultimate “dirt-dog,” a player who gave his all to make the play on the field.  If you wanted to see Trot Nixon in a clean uniform you had to be there when the gates opened for batting practice. Trot Nixon played in more than 1,000 regular and postseason games for the Red Sox during a career that spanned ten sea [...]

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