Too many players from the 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox have died at too young of an age. The recent passing of catcher Mike Ryan on July 7, 2020, brought the number of players we have lost to seventeen. Since there were 39 players who are inc [...]
In June I was honored to participate in a panel discussion to kick off the “'Impossible Dreamers': The Pennant-Winning 1967 Boston Red Sox" exhibition at the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston (http://www.masshist.org/calendar/event?even [...]
When the Boston Red Sox spring training camp opened in Winter Haven, Florida, in late-February 1967, nobody was talking about an American League pennant or humming Broadway show tunes in the team’s honor. The 1966 Red Sox had finished in ninth [...]
And just like that, the end was in sight. After two hours and fifteen minutes of suspense, all of a sudden the Red Sox were three outs away from at least a share of the American League pennant. The crowd knew that the Tigers had defeated the Cal [...]
Carl Yastrzemski was selected to his first American League All-Star team in 1963. More than fifty years later he still clearly remembered walking into the locker room at Cleveland’s old Municipal Stadium. “Bill Monbouquette, Frank Malzone and D [...]