by tbrooks | Apr 16, 2013 | Boston Red Sox, David Ortiz, Ellis Burks, Felix Doubront, Jackie Bradley Jr., Jackie Robinson, Ken Griffey Jr., Koji Uehara, Nick Cafardo Mail Bag
Don’t know about you, but I am enjoying the racial speculation in baseball circles that has resulted from this and this. Far be it from me to answer the issues that have lead us to today, but surely we can examine the work of noted sociologist Nick Cafardo as he...
by bcowett | Feb 1, 2013 | Boston Red Sox, Jackie Robinson, John Farrell, John Lackey, Junichi Tazawa, Lyle Overbay, Ryan Kalish, Scott Atchison
It’s actually February. That felt like the longest January ever. Yeah, it’s always 31 days but…there’s no baseball. The Sox signed Lyle Overbay, otherwise known as Insurance Plan Option #1, and finally got themselves a lefty bench bat. (Minor...
by evan brunell | May 21, 2008 | Jackie Robinson
John Clarke, a local boy from Milton who is also a cancer survivor, won one of eight awards in Major League Baseball’s Breaking Barriers essay-writing contest in which students from grades four to eight were asked to “write how values displayed by Jackie...
