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 [...]
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Lou Lucier on October 18, 2014. His obituary and arrangements are included in the following link: http://www.legacy.com Mr. Lucier was one of the finest gentlemen I have ever interviewed. I treasure my memory of the afternoon I describe in the feature below. I spent Saturday afternoon talking baseball w [...]
When Red Sox outfielder Gabe Kapler ran in from his position in right field to celebrate the World Championship after the final out in Game Four of the 2004 World Series, it seemed surreal to him. “I felt like I was in a movie,” Kapler recalled in a recent interview. “I was asking myself if it was really happening. “After a while they let my best friend o [...]
Here is a link to an ode to the 1914 Miracle Braves written by Ring Lardner. Lardner was a prolific writer, mainly about sports and especially baseball, but he also wrote about the theater and life in general. His column in the Chicago Tribune was circulated to over 100 newspapers and he also wrote the acclaimed book, You Know Me Al. Thanks to Jonathon Tho [...]
Former Red Sox closer Keith Foulke was the unsung hero of the 2004 World Series. Keith was on the mound to close out all four World Series victories, earning the win in Game One and the save in Game Four to clinch Boston’s first World Championship in 86 years. But Foulke’s postseason heroics in 2004 weren’t limited to the World Series. He pitched in two of t [...]