And Jim Rice and John Havlicek played golf.
Red Sox Hall of Famer Jim Rice and Celtics Hall of Famer John Havlicek get ready to tee it up.
Some tid bits about “Hondo”.
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In 1962, he was a first round draft pick out of Ohio State of the Boston Celtics and a seventh round pick of the Cleveland Browns.
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His college teammates included Jerry Lucas, Bobby Knight and Larry Siegfried who would become a Celtic teammate as well.
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Celtic announcer Johnny Most dubbed him “the Bouncing Buckeye from Ohio State”.
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When he retired he was the Celtics all time leading scorer and the sixth highest scorer in NBA history.
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The Celtics won eight championships while Havlicek wore the Celtic green.
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He was named to 13 consecutive NBA All Star teams.
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Eleven times he was named to either the first or second All NBA team.
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He was named to the All NBA first or second defensive team on eight occasions.
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In 1996 he was named one of the top 50 players in the history of the NBA.
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His number 17 hangs from the Gahhden rafters.
Oh and at Fenway Park today the Red Sox will try once again to get over the .500 mark. They do so as a result of last nights walk off bomb by pinch-hitter Jarrod Saltalamacchia!
“Salty” watches his majestic shot fly through the Fenway night.
And it was a bomb carrying about 10 rows over the Red Sox bullpen scoring Daniel Nava ahead of him who had walked leading off the ninth. Now I don’t mean to be a wet blanket and I do not consider myself one of those gloom and doomers who always sees the negative aspects of the Fenway team. In fact my glass is always half full, however, did anyone else notice that as the Red Sox dugout emptied last night to welcome home “Salty” the home run hero, Bobby V was obviously among the crowd ready to give the big guy the big hug. “Salty” brushed right by him. It could mean absolutely nothing, it could simply be the fact that he had just had his shirt torn off his back by his “Papi”
Or it could mean something. Oh my God, it might mean that I am turning into one of those nattering nabobs of negativism! Yikes, I must stop.
Maybe, just maybe, Friday’s “purpose” pitch will be the turning point, after all yesterday was the first walk off win of 2012. Hmmmmm…..
And so it is on this day in Fenway Park history, May 27, 2012, getting over .500 day?
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Hello and welcome, my name is Raymond Sinibaldi. A retired history teacher, after 26 years in the classroom, a baseball fan for three score and five, I have authored 13 books. Eight about baseball and her glorious history; most recently Yankees in the Hall of Fame and Dodgers in the Hall of Fame. An aficionado of the Kennedy Administration, I have written four books in that realm and also co-authored a book of motivational stories for coaches. The first, The Babe in Red Stockings which was co-authored with Kerry Keene and David Hickey and released in 1997. It is a chronicle of Babe's days with the Red Sox. We also penned a screenplay about Babe's Red Sox days so if any of you are Hollywood inclined or would like to represent us in forwarding that effort feel free to contact me. In 2012 we three amigos published Images of Fenway Park in honor of the 100th birthday of Fenway Park. That led to the creation of this blog. The following year, 2013 came my first solo venture, Spring Training in Bradenton and Sarasota. This is a pictorial history of spring training in those two Florida cities. The spring of 2014 brought forth the 1967 Red Sox, The Impossible Dream Season. The title speaks for itself, and it also is a pictorial history. Many of the photos in this book were never published before. The spring of 2015 brought 1975 Red Sox, American League Champions. Another pictorial effort, this will be about the Red Sox championship season of 1975 and the World Series that restored baseball in America. The spring of 2016 brought 61 Motivational Stories for Every Coach of Every Sport. My first JFK effort was in 2017 with John F Kennedy in New England, which was followed by JFK From Florida to the Moon (2019) and JFK At Rest in Arlington (2020). Jackie's Newport came about in 2019 and in 2023 came both Yankees in the Hall of Fame and Dodgers in the Hall of Fame. I was fortunate enough to consult with sculptor Franc Talarico on the “Jimmy Fund” statue of Ted Williams which stands outside both Fenway Park and Jet Blue Park Fenway South, in Fort Myers Florida. That story is contained in the near 300 posts which are contained herein. Throughout the years this blog has morphed from an exclusive Red Sox focus, to a broader baseball perspective to a blog about life, with baseball a large portion of it. This year, 2024, I have reactivated this blog which lay dormant for quite some time. Welcome aboard, pass the word and feel free to contact me about anything you read or ideas you may have for a topic. Email me at fenwaypark100@gmail.com.
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