Ask a casual fan of the Boston Red Sox what they remember about the sixth game of the 1975 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds and the answer is certain to be, “Pudge Fisk’s game-winning, twelfth-inning home run.” Ask a dedicated, long-term Red Sox fan the same question and the answer is likely to be, “Bernie Carbo’s eighth-inning home run that tied th [...]
The April 6 Red Sox season opener against the Philadelphia Phillies marks the 145th consecutive season of professional baseball in Boston! We are celebrating this milestone by changing our masthead to note this fact. Boston’s 145 consecutive seasons are the most in major league baseball—in fact the most in the world. Chicago is second with 143 consecutive se [...]
Ted Lepcio graduated from Seton Hall University in June of 1951, and ten months later, after playing in only 89 minor league games, he was the starting second baseman for the Boston Red Sox on Opening Day in Washington, DC. And that game against the Washington Senators on April 15, 1952, would turn out to be one of the highlights of Ted’s ten-year MLB caree [...]
Former Red Sox pitcher Bill Monbouquette never forgot his 18th birthday. That birthday is a milestone for all of us, but Bill spent his 18th birthday on the mound at the old Polo Grounds, Long-time home of the New York Giants, pitching for US All-Stars against the New York All-Star team in 1954 Hearst Sandlot Classic. “What a thrill that was,” Bill recalled [...]
Orlando Cabrera was stunned when he was traded from the Montreal Expos to the Boston Red Sox at the trading deadline in 2004. The slick-fielding shortstop still remembers every detail of his conversation with Expos’ manager Frank Robinson on July 31. “Frank called me into his office and he said, ‘I’m going to give you 25 guesses of where you’ve been traded [...]