A singular honor fell to Joseph A. Boucher, a construction engineer from Albany, at yesterday’s Red Sox-Tigers double-header. The longest home run ever hit by Ted Williams in Boston bounced ...
Boston College met its football Dunkerque yesterday. An awesome Holy Cross team drove the previously unbeaten Eagles right into the sea, hammered them unmercifully throughout the action, and ran ...
“Babe” Ruth, home-run hitter extraordinary of the Red Sox, has been sold to the New York American League club for a cash price of probably $100,000 and possibly more. Pres Frazee in announcing ...
From confetti-filled floors to firing-line decisions, our sporting emotions ran the gamut, ending some eras and starting some new ones. 5:00 a.m. Gumbel was the studio host for CBS since returning ...
Struck on the right elbow by a non-curving curve-ball, Ted Williams, the heavy artillery of the Red Sox attack, was painfully bruised in yesterday’s exhibition game at Fenway Park against an ...
State of the Teams: Some are rebuilding, some are searching for identity, and one delivered a duck boat parade In his annual State of the Teams address, columnist Bob Ryan takes stock of Boston's ...
A bat thrown by Ted Williams at Fenway Park yesterday afternoon struck a woman spectator and resulted in her being hospitalized over night. Apparently disgusted for taking a called third strike in ...
Jim Piersall of the Red Sox had the sharper tongue. But the Yankees’ Billy Martin had harder punches. Baseball fans who saw Piersall give the Yanks’ second baseman a terrific “riding” from ...
In one of baseball’s truly dramatic moments, Mel Parnell yesterday became the first Red Sox pitcher since 1923 to pitch a no-hit, no-run game when he stopped the White Sox, 4-0, at Fenway Park.
Pumpsie Green made his Fenway Park debut before 21,000 last night with a leadoff three-bagger off the Left Field Fence. He scored Boston’s first run, played a flawless game at second and paced ...
Eamon De Valera, President of the Irish republic, got a reception from at least 50,000 people at Fenway Park yesterday afternoon such as no other Irish patriot ever received in Boston -- such a ...
ST. LOUIS – The Cat stalked the Red Sox for the third and fatal time today. In a desperately waged seventh game, in which Harry The Cat Breechen slinked in a relief role to his third victory ...