It's incredible the way we remember things like Aparicio's fall. I was listening to that game on the radio.Originally Posted by 5GoldGloves:OF,75
It's incredible the way we remember things like Aparicio's fall. I was listening to that game on the radio.
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.
Right? I wasn't even a bitter fan yet...
I looked him up: voted starting All-Star shortstop by the fans in '71 and '72 (ok, name recognition maybe)... but Aparicio also got MVP votes from the writers in '72, behind only Fisk and Tiant among Red Sox.
He was a great fielder- back before metrics.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
I remember that 72 season. it was cool to have a chance to see some of the greats who played the game in different times.
That 72 season was my first, as a Sox fan. I remember it well.
40 years!
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
72 wasn't my first Sox season, but it was my first Sox heartbreaker.
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.
The first of many to come, unfortunately.
2004 was so overdue!
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Mine too, but '74 was worse. In first place all summer, by as much as 7 games in late August. Then we went back to school all excited and September was like, What the Hell?
That was hell, as was '78, but losing the season by a half game was unprecedented and extremely heartbreaking.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Those don't compare with being 9 years old in October 1986. Pain.
74 was my first trip to Fenway, right in the middle of the slide.
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.
I kinda lost touch with them from 1967 (WS loss) to 1975 (another one) so I missed that. Do not speak to me of Yaz's pop-up, nor of 1986, nor of the dozen straight Postseason losses after that ...
"Fans have become more entitled than anything. So they're starting to question our motives for the game, or how we approach the game. The ones that do question -- like who are you? Just shut up and watch the game tonight." --Kevin Durant on players' lack of effort in regular season games.
I still loved those early 60's teams. In 1966, we really could see that something new and fresh was coming our way. It was great baseball. The current number of teams and the likewise number that make the playoffs makes me believe that we would have had numerous other chances with some of those early 70's teams if the format had been different.
Nice post.
Things might have been different had we just kept our core together. The Fisk fiasco was totally uncalled for and insane.
Trading Lynn, Burly, Carbo, Smith, Scott, Cooper, Lee and others and letting guys like Tiant walk really ruined the whole decade.
When you say it's gonna happen now
When exactly do you mean?
Come on, everyone knows it was Nixon.
Students of the Seventies still bemoan the Sox' lack of a back-up catcher with a negative dWAR like Russ Nixon from the previous decade.
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