Tim Wakefield achieved many individual honors during his 17-year career with the Red Sox. He was an All-Star, he pitched the most innings (3,006), and started more games (463) than any pitcher in Red Sox history. But being a part of the 2004 World Championship Boston Red Sox was the biggest on-field thrill of his career. “To be a part of the team that brou [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Boston Red Sox fans can never hear enough or read enough about their 2004 World Championship team. Veteran baseball author Saul Wisnia does a wonderful job of meeting that need with his new book MIRACLE AT FENWAY: The Inside Story of the Boston Red Sox 2004 Championship Season (St. Martin’s Press). Wisnia’s premise is that an event of this magnitude require [...]