Too many players from the 1967 Red Sox have died at too young an age. The passing of outfielder Don Demeter on November 29, 2021 brought the number of players we have lost to nineteen. Since there were 39 players who are included on the 1967 Roster for the season, 20 members of the Impossible Dream team survive. In addition, we have lost the following non- [...]
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 California Angels 6-4 in the first game of their doubleheader, keeping Detroit’s hope for a first-place tie alive, but [...]
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?event=2265). The MHS was nice enough to post video of the talk: https://youtu.be/4-uGCPSHPDo -- Recorded 24 June 2017 a [...]
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 place, a distant twenty-six games behind the World Champion Baltimore Orioles, and the team had lost a total of one [...]
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 Dick Radatz were all selected along with me. When we got to the park, the first player I saw was Al Kaline [Detroit [...]