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-player personnel:
General Manager: Dick O’Connell
Assistant GM: Haywood Sullivan
Manager: Dick Williams
Bench coach: Eddie “Pop” Popowski
First Base Coach: Bobby Doerr
Pitching coach: Sal Maglie
Bullpen coach: Al Lakeman
Trainer: Buddy LeRoux
Catcher Jerry Moses, who died on March 26, 2018, was not on the official 1967 roster but spent September with the team, and the 1967 Red Sox players of record considered him to be a 1967 teammate.
The following is a complete listing including date of death and age at death.
|
PLAYER |
DATE OF DEATH |
AGE AT DEATH |
|
Elston Howard |
1980 |
50 |
|
Jerry Adair |
1987 |
50 |
|
Don McMahon |
1987 |
57 |
|
Joe Foy |
1989 |
46 |
|
Tony Conigliaro |
1990 |
45 |
|
John Wyatt |
1998 |
62 |
|
Bob Tillman |
2000 |
63 |
|
Ken Brett |
2003 |
55 |
|
Russ Gibson |
2008 |
69 |
|
Jerry Stephenson |
2010 |
66 |
|
Dennis Bennett |
2012 |
72 |
|
George Scott |
2013 |
69 |
|
Dan Osinski |
2013 |
79 |
|
Norm Siebern |
2015 |
82 |
|
Jim Landis Ken Poulson |
2017 2017 |
83 70 |
|
Lee Stange Mike Ryan Don Demeter |
2018 2020 2021 |
81 78 86 |
If I am lucky enough to live to be 100, the Impossible Dream team will for ever be my favorite! R.I.P. Thanks for the memories!
Thank you for bringing back greay memories
The ’67 team has made me a life long Red Sox fan . Thanks for the memories.
came home from the army in 1966,bad year don’t know why but I listened to ever game in67 I could,truly the cardiac kids. every move D.ick Williams made seemed to pay off.every game seemed to be a comeback,great,entertaining season.
All.the games were Always either on our TV or on my dad’s radio.in the car and I Loved listeng/watching the games! I cherish all the memories of the dream team and they shall last forever!!!
Correction—The impossible dream!
Only about 80 games were televised in 1967 plus 7 in the World Series. So, we had to rely on radio with Ken Coleman and Ned Martin on WHDH-850 Boston or WTIC-1080 Hartford for about half of the games. I was 17 that year and living with my parents and brothers in Hyannis. During the day, WHDH came in fine but at night their signal experienced a lot of interference from other stations so we often listened on WTIC. Today, of course, ALL games are televised and, here on the Cape, we have a local FM station, WEII-96.3, that comes in with a perfect signal day and night. The perfect radio signal is great but somehow listening to a fairly weak signal fading in and out added character to the whole Red Sox experience.
Well said Marc.
I was in the fifth grade during the 67′ season.
I remember in school listening to a Sox game
on our loud speaker!!Memories that i wouldn’t
trade for the World..1975 series was another
over the top series…A golden age for us Sox
Fans….We were robbed of the BEST years of
Tony C’s career…….I LOVE OUR SOX…CHRIS
SALE IS THE REAL DEAL…THIS COULD BE
OUR YEAR…GOOOO RED SOX..
Sick Williams was a hard nose in your face manager. He got the best out of you or you didn’t play for him. How he would handle a team today would be something..
The Year of the Yaz 1967
It was a season unlike any other, as we all know, and we will never see its like again. Four teams battling for the pennant, and for awhile it was five. I was there for a double header against the Angels in August. We won the first game 12-2, and came back from an 8-0 deficit in nightcap, capped off by Jerry Adair’s homer in the bottom of the eighth. It changed baseball forever in Boston. I mean, even the nuns let us watch the World Series games! And to cap it off, my friends and me played basball every night for that entire summer. 1967 will never fade, and NOT because of the alleged summer of love.
Well said, Tony! Very well said.
I was there to. Lee Stange masterful in Game 1. Dave Morehead got knocked hard early innings Game 2.
So many wonderful memories come back !
Actually have a lifetime of terrific Sox memories !
From Conigliaro to Boomer to Rico to Reggie Smith to Marty Pattin & Bob Veale to Siebert to Yaz to the gold dust twins & RemDawg to Buckner to Vaughn to Barrett to Youk , Foulke, Papi, Pedro to Bogey Betts Benintendi & sooooooooo many more !!!!!!
Great Memories I was in 2nd grade and a big fan going to a Catholic school and yes the nun’s even let us watch or listen to the games. I wore # 8 in little league. A true fan of the RedSox even today.
Those are great memories!
Thanks for sharing them!
In 1967 I was 9 years old living in Lowell, Mass. I attended Notre Dame de Lourdes parochial school, 3rd grade. When the Red Sox went to the World Series in 1967, the nuns refused to let the students watch the games in the classrooms, even though each classroom had a television. The school housed classes 1st through 8th grades. 1967 was a year when protests were common in America, and so it was when the 8th graders led a protest on the outside courtyard of the school, refusing to go back to class, unless the nuns televised the World Series. The protest cascaded down through every grade, every student refusing to go to class. The nuns, not knowing what to do, called the Monsignor of the parish to the school to force the students back to class. The students refused, till the Monsignor, and the nuns agreed to televise the World Series. The students won their protest, amid cheers from every student, returned to class, and the games were shown in every classroom. I lived and died with the Boston Red Sox that season, even sleeping in my number 8 white short sleeve Jersey with red sleeves. My mom, knowing how much I loved the team, and baseball itself, let me stay home “sick” from school to watch the 7th game. Thank you Mom, for loving me as much as you did.. R.I.P.
I was in Vancouver in 1986 and listened to the Red Sox-Angels playoffs everyday sitting in my rental car! Sorry, I know, wrong year!
Anyone, especially a Canadian 3,000+ miles from Boston, who will to the Red Sox on their car radio deserves a commendation!
A verbal high-five headed your way.
And thanks for the memories.
I was 11 years old and 67 was just so special. I can remember every player, their number and stats. It’s been over 50 years now and it seems like yesterday. So fearful memories. One other thing I noticed In reading the list of deceased players that Bobby Doerr the first base coach is missing.
Wonderful memories.
I met Jerry Moses at an opening day ceremony in a small town on the RI border many years ago. A real gentleman and class act.
Herb – This was such a remarkable year. I was able to procure a large number of the recordings (a 78rpm disc) which were done called, of course, The Impossible Dream. I had several hundred of them and our senior men’s hockey team had the rights to sell them at Opening Day in ’68 to raise money for our team’s future. Jay Riley and I were at Fenway and did our best to sell them – for I can’t remember how much. We had little success. The hockey team was called the Bud Kings, and I believe Budweiser was behind the production of the recording. Perhaps Budweiser could access a copy from their records.
However, the recording was truly a treasure, capturing the voices of Ned Martin et al as the action occurred during that marvelous season. Nothing like hearing it as it unfurled – and they were tremendous announcers.
For the life of me, I don’t think I have even one copy left of that recording. If you know of the whereabouts of one it, I would love to get ahold of one, even have it reproduced and put on the market as a nostalgic, historic piece. You really should have one as the historian amongst us.
Al the best, David G Morse
Even with their 21st-century successes, 1967 remains THE great line of demarcation in post-WWI/Babe Ruth Red Sox history. There was the franchise from 1919 through 1966 and there’s the franchise during and after 1967. That season was the first one in any sport that I was sufficiently sentient to follow wire to wire; I still recall where I was on both days of that last weekend against the Twins on 9/30 and 10/1. Getting separated from my youth group in Fenway Park’s bleachers during a July game vs. the Angels was pretty memorable, too; I cried like a baby until I was found. My Victorian 4th-grade teacher wheeling a school-property TV into our classroom for a ’67 World Series game on an early-October afternoon was quite the surprise, too. All in all, what a great way to be introduced to the wide world of sports…….
All great stuff Don!! Herb Crehan
Many great memories. The last week-end against the Twins was something else. Yaz went 7 for 8 and baseball was reborn in Boston. We would never go to spring training thinking we never had a chance. I’ve always wondered what would have happened if Tony had not been beaned and Lonborg had not gone skiing.
Catcher Gerry Moses, who was brought up in September but did not play, has also passed away, approximate two years ago.
Gerry passed in 2018, at the age of 71.