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It would be a gross exaggeration for me to suggest that I have been a Boston Red Sox fanatic all my life. Its only been since I was seven years old. But in that time span of 75 years (gulp) that I have been carrying the teams banner, there has never been a time that the Sox have not had a Hall of Fame player on the roster. Oh sure, you might quibble over that season and a half (1952-53) when Ted Williams was flying air raids over North Korea instead of hitting home runs over the bullpen in Fenw...

Photo by Zachary Roy/Getty Images Dustin Pedroia, long time Boston Red Sox second baseman and 2008 American League Most Valuable Player, announced his retirement today. Pedroia, 37, was, along with Robinson Cano, Chase Utley and Ian Kinsler, part of a crop of star-caliber second basemen who came into the league around the same time in the mid-aughts. Pedroia was a second round pick in 2004 out of Arizona State — his beating out Ian Kinsler for the shortstop job there led Kinsler to transfer ...

Dustin Pedroia press conference: Boston Red Sox star will discuss retirement at 1:30 p.m. Monday, here’s how to watch and live stream Updated Feb 01, 2021; Posted Feb 01, 2021 Boston Red Soxs Dustin Pedroia reacts after flying put during the third inning of a baseball game against the Baltimore Orioles in Boston, Monday, April 15, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)AP Facebook Share Red Sox second baseman Dustin Pedroia announced his retirement Monday morning, ending his 17-year run with the org...

They are dying off and there is nothing that you, I, or anyone else can do about it. The numbers of 11 Boston Celtics who played for the team during the greatest of all sports dynasties, 1957-1969, hang from the rafters of TD Garden. With the passing of K. C. Jones on Christmas Day, more than half of them, six in all, have now died. None of them died young and only one, John Havlicek, did not live to see the age of 80 -- and he came close. But time was up for the six who have died and the clock...

share-square-1071792 From 0 to 99, Red Sox players have filled out jerseys with 90 different numbers over the years. You want a fun exercise? Pick the best player to wear every number in the club’s illustrious history. That’s what MLB.com has done below. 0: Brandon Phillips The only player in Red Sox history to wear No. 0, veteran infielder Phillips had a short run in Boston (one month) at the end of the 2018 season, but he contributed with a memorable two-run homer that fueled an epic 9-8 ...