Championships since purchase by John Henry group: Red Sox 4 Yankees 1
The Red Sox are 8-1 in their last 9 postseason games against the Yankees.
Can we count Moe Berg, MLB catcher and ONI spy?
1. Any thread I start is public domain. Or, if you're feeling socialist, community property.
2. I'm talking myself out of Berg. The goal of these threads was to name players who achieved fame in other venues. As a spy, fame was deleterious to Berg's success.
But the book about him was one of the better baseball bios I've ever read - "The Catcher Was A Spy"