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[mabrowndog]

Dan Roche twitter

Ceremonies will be August 3.

Curt Schilling, Marty Barrett, Ellis Burks, Dutch Leonard, Joe Dobson, Joe Mooney, and John Taylor newest class of #RedSox H-O-Fers

If you're scoring at home, that's five ex-players, the current groundskeeper emeritus, and the owner who built Fenway.

Great to see Ellis get the nod, along with the oft-overlooked Dobson.

Edited by mabrowndog, 28 March 2012 - 04:17 PM.

[Lefty on the Mound]

Dobson pitched a complete game for the win in WS game 5 in 1946 against the Cardinals. Nice to see him getting some love.


Sille Skrub needs to start planning an early August trip to Boston.

[curly2]

Dobson pitched a complete game for the win in WS game 5 in 1946 against the Cardinals. Nice to see him getting some love.

Overall in the Series he pitched 12.1 innings, allowed four hits and no earned runs. Unfortunately they had to pinch hit for him the game-tying rally, leading to the whole Enos Slaughter play in the bottom of the inning.

[biollante]

Marty Barrett ? Does everyone make the Red Sox Hall of Fame ?

[Lose Remerswaal]

Marty Barrett ? Does everyone make the Red Sox Hall of Fame ?

Much better shot of it if they perform surgery on you without your consent.

[OttoC]

Dutch Leonard was not regarded well by his contemporaries. The opening paragraph of his SABR biography (by David Jones) reads:

A hard-throwing, spectacularly talented left-hander who posted the best single-season earned run average in American League history in 1914,
Dutch Leonard was also one of the Deadball Era’s most controversial figures. At nearly every stop along his journey in professional baseball,
Leonard feuded with management over his salary, and at one point was even suspended from organized baseball for nearly three years for
refusing to report for work. Regarded as a selfish, cowardly player by many of his contemporaries, Leonard frittered away much of his major
league career, alternating periods of brilliance with long bouts of inertia. “As a pitcher, he was gutless,” Hall of Fame umpire Billy Evans once
declared. “We umpires had no respect for Leonard, for he whined on every pitch called against him.” After exiting the game in 1925, Leonard
touched off one of the biggest scandals in baseball history when he accused Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker of conspiring to throw a baseball game
in 1919. Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis dismissed the charges, and Leonard retired to his California ranch, where he earned millions
of dollars growing grapes.

He did not play in 1922, 1923, and in only nine games in 1924. This suspension was after his six-year Red Sox career. He won one game in each of the 1915 and 1916 World Series.

[biollante]

I remember Barrett having a big year in 1986. I also remember he used to make lots of outs (if my nonconsensual surgery hasn't interferred with it). He was a good 2nd basemen but maybe I just need to look up the criteria for the Red Sox Hall of Fame.

As for Dutch Leonard - sounds like an interesting guy to avoid.

[brs3]

Marty Barrett ? Does everyone make the Red Sox Hall of Fame ?

1986 ALCS MVP, the NBC Player of The Game for Game 6(before everything went to crap) of the 1986 World Series. If John Valentin & Tommy Harper can get in, I think there's room for Marty Barrett.

[Red(s)HawksFan]

Barrett had two seasons with an OPS+ over 99 (102 in '84 and 100 in '86). He wasn't spectacular in the field either.

He's going in the Sox Hall of Fame for his performance in the 1986 post-season, and that alone. He was the ALCS MVP on the strength of his team-leading 11 hits. He added another 13 hits in the World Series, which is still tied for the record. All told, he put up .400/.455/.466 line in that post-season, and his 24 total hits were the most in the pre-wildcard era.

[SumnerH]

Barrett was probably the best executor of the hidden ball trick in Red Sox history (Lowell was past his prime by the time he arrived), successfully pulling it off 3 times. So there's that, I guess.

[Sille Skrub]

Sille Skrub needs to start planning an early August trip to Boston.

Ha!

Too humid. I'm not leaving the Bay Area from Memorial Day to September.

[sfip]

Schilling posted a couple interesting tidbits on facebook shortly after the announcement.

FWIW, Marty Barrett = First player to ever get a hit off me, Ellis Burks = First HR I ever gave up in the big leagues...

[HriniakPosterChild]

Ha!

Too humid. I'm not leaving the Bay Area from Memorial Day to September.

The West Coast really spoils you, doesn't it?

(20 years for me as of last month.)