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    How Many of the Red Sox Managers of Your Lifetime do you have a Visceral Hatred for?

    For me Zimmer gets the nod, hands down, for reasons exhaustively detailed upthread. All the contenders fall short of his special, historic level of incompetence, though in my mind Johnson ('75) and McNamara ('86) will always have much to answer for. Let's not allow recency bias to blind us to...
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    the red seat

    This thread, dealing with long home runs at Fenway, brought back my personal memory of the longest ball I ever saw hit there. It was in April, 1957, Red Sox vs. Yankees. Moose Skowron of New York had a pair of homers in the game and one of them is forever etched in my mind. It went like a rocket...
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    15 Years

    Fifteen years ago, in the glorious autumn of 2004, I was teaching English in Warsaw, Poland. I watched every game in Boston's historic championship run, but it wasn't easy: because of the time difference, games began at 2:00 a.m. So I did a lesson plan, grabbed a little sleep, then went to a...
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    Who is the first Red Sox First Baseman you can remember?

    Gernert. I'm pretty old; saw my first game at Fenway in May of 1953: Maurice McDermott pitched for Boston, Ewell "The Whip" Blackwell for New York. Mantle homered. If I'm not mistaken, it was Dominic DiMaggio's last game -- he pinch-hit. ## A post above claims Stuart hit a homer near the Buck...
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