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 included on the 1967 Roster for the season, 22 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 |
2017 |
83 |
|
Lee Stange Mike Ryan |
2018 2020 |
81 78 |
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.
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!
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.