March 12 – Happy Birthday Alex Gaston
This New York City born catcher was a horrible hitter, who had good enough defensive skills behind the plate that John McGraw kept him on the big league roster of his New York Giants ball cub as the...
View ArticleApril 11 – Happy Birthday Jason Varitek
He was known to his teammates and all of Red Sox Nation as “Tek.” He was brought to Boston with Derek Lowe in July of 1997 in exchange for reliever Heathcliff Slocumb, in what was the best trade former...
View ArticleApril 13 – Happy Birthday Jake Stahl
Jake Stahl is one of just 11 Red Sox players to have won AL home run titles. He performed the feat way back in 1910, during the Deadball Era, which helps explain why Stahl’s 10 home runs were enough...
View ArticleMay 2 – Happy Birthday Jarrod Saltalamacchia
When the Red Sox acquired catcher Jarrod Saltalamacchia from Texas for three prospects at the 2010 regular season trading deadline, I did not think this native of West Palm Beach, Florida was going to...
View ArticleMay 6 – Happy Birthday Russ Gibson
During spring training before Boston’s 1967 Impossible Dream season, Red Sox manager Dick Williams had three receivers in camp competing for the team’s two catcher’s slots. Bob Tillman had replaced Jim...
View ArticleMay 19 – Happy Birthday Rick Cerone
For one brief shining moment in his Major League career, it looked as if Rick Cerone was becoming the heir to the Dickey-Berra-Howard-Munson succession of great Yankee catchers. The moment actually...
View ArticleJune 4 – Happy Birthday Tony Pena
I was an oversized kid. My first little league baseball coach kept asking me if I wanted to try catching. We already had a kid on the team doing the catching and I believe his name was John Malec. John...
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