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    April 9, home opener

    Actual WEEI audio from Fenway: Johnny Damon: "I'm fortunate that I was very blessed to, uh, do my pushups and dips as a young kid, and I still have some, uh, nice muscles, the calves are still rockin' and rollin', um, my sweet ass is still looking very solid, so... I'm enjoying life!" (Will...
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    April 9, home opener

    Johnny Damon in the sox booth notes that he has 8(!) kids that keep him busy. Joe Castiglione: Good thing you go all those good contracts!
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    April 9, home opener

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    April 9, home opener

    Not a dry eye in the house
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    Tim Wakefield has passed away from brain cancer at 57 (10/1 update)

    Bobby Orr tweeted: View: https://twitter.com/RealBobbyOrr/status/1716957352195440846
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    Tim Wakefield has passed away from brain cancer at 57 (10/1 update)

    Thanks BoSoxLady for reaching out to them. I can only imagine what Stacy and those poor kids must be going through now. Have you heard from the Red Sox about some sort of memorial in the works?
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    Tim Wakefield has passed away from brain cancer at 57 (10/1 update)

    The 2012 documentary Knuckleball! Is really worth a look and will warm your heart. It chronicles the ups and downs of Tim’s entire career. It shows the fellowship of knuckleballers, a small and elite club, and shows the critical mentoring that Tim got from the Neikro bothers. After Tim was...
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    Tim Wakefield has passed away from brain cancer at 57 (10/1 update)

    This news just guts me. I really loved Timmy Wakefield. As a lifelong admirer and student of the knuckleball, I followed his whole career closely. When the Sox signed him, I was ecstatic. But I often like to remember his storybook rise to the majors in ‘92 which is the stuff dreams are made of...
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    Tito Francona Appreciation Thread

    Tito never lost a World Series game in a Red Sox uniform. Is there anything else you want from your manager? Best manager of my lifetime, and that’s almost 50 seasons.
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    Jim Bouton dead at 80

    I couldn't agree more. His death has really gutted me, as I always imagined I would contact him again to tell him how truly great his book is, and how much it meant to me personally. However, I am not surprised he is viewed so kindly by baseball fans, as he is also held in very high esteem by...
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    Jim Bouton dead at 80

    Wow, great research Jess. I always wondered about that. I retold it here just how Bouton told it to me, but I noticed in another place where he might have described it as IN Minnesota, which wouldn't account for the crowd going crazy. Another point I left out was that Bouton made the point that...
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    Jim Bouton dead at 80

    When I was a kid, Jim Bouton told me one of the greatest sports stories I had ever heard. I was very lucky to have had lunch with him many years ago, probably around 1979. During my early teens, I worked as a batboy for Orleans of the Cape League, and Jim Bouton came to speak at a league...
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