Boston Fans Source & Resource for Baseball History

Celebrating 153 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 28th season as a Contributing Writer and he 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. Comments and suggestions for future articles may be submitted at his website.

Remembering Jimmy Piersall

By |2023-05-24T15:17:48-04:00May 24th, 2023|Categories: Jimmy Piersall|

When former All-Star outfielder Jimmy Piersall received the phone call in 2010 telling him he had been elected to the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame, it was a dream come true. “To be honest, I actually got the shivers when I heard the news. I grew up in Waterbury, CT, surrounded by Yankee fans, rooting for the Red Sox. I never thought I would be honored this wa [...]

CELEBRATING NINE RED SOX WORLD CHAMPIONSHIPS AND 153 YEARS OF BOSTON BASEBALL!

By |2023-05-17T17:13:36-04:00May 17th, 2023|Categories: Boston Baseball History|

When the 2018 Boston Red Sox won Game Five against the Los Angeles Dodgers the club became and still remain the only MLB team to win four World Championships in the 21st Century! And they became the first team in MLB history to win four World Championships over fifteen consecutive seasons in both the 20th and 21st Centuries! Given the Red Sox commitment to s [...]

REMEMBERING FRANK SULLIVAN

By |2023-05-30T19:10:58-04:00May 10th, 2023|Categories: Featured, Frank Sullivan|

My dear friend Frank Sullivan would have been 93 years-old on January 23, 2023. And we miss his lovely wife Marilyn who passed away on January 15, 2020. It is still difficult to accept that we have lost both Frank and Marilyn but they left a wonderful legacy and much Aloha. They had an extraordinary life and it is timely to revisit all that they experienced and achieved!

NEW! BERNIE CARBO REMEMBERS THE 1975 RED SOX

By |2023-02-17T23:06:16-05:00November 15th, 2022|Categories: Boston Baseball History|

The 1975 season is among the most memorable in the rich history of the Boston Red Sox.  In spring training the club was predicted to finish in third place at best in the AL East. But the “Gold Dust Twins” Jim Rice and Fred Lynn, put together two of MLB’s best rookie seasons ever, veteran Carl Yastrzemski played like he had found the Fountain of Youth, and th [...]

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