We tend to think of Johnny Pesky as the old guy who hung around the Red Sox clubhouse, the eminence grise with the same name as the right...

One of the great things about sports in general and baseball in particular is how bit players can be memorable. Backup catchers...

I’ve mentioned before that sometimes a player cements himself in our collective hearts with a single play. To start off the second...

Lee pitched for eight teams in his Hall of Fame pitching career, including the Red Sox from 1988 to 1990. He led the league in saves four...

The Red Sox have had some great center fielders. Freddie Lynn, Tris Speaker, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Damon. Ellis Burks and Jackie Bradley...

On July 4, 1914, the Boston Red Sox purchased the contract of minor league Orioles pitcher George Herman Ruth. One of the earliest Boston...

How do you spell Offerman? With two F’s and 42 E’s. The Dominican-born Offerman was a talented offensive player, but his skills were not...

Ellis Burks broke in with the Red Sox in 1987 when he was 22, and promptly became the third player in franchise history to put up 20 HR...

The 1970s and 80s were a time of feared one-dimensional sluggers in Major League Baseball. Kingman, Luzinski, Rice, Deer, Baylor,...

In case it hasn’t been evident from some of the names on this list so far, I’m a sucker for the what-coulda-been story, for the prospect...

It was preseason baseball evaluations for the boys this morning, so I find myself thinking about my earliest baseball days. Pony League...

Bruno was a slugger for the Twins for most of the 1980s (though he debuted in 1981 with the Angels). From 1982-87 he was a regular for...