Tag Archives: Buck O’Brien

Shutout History at Fenway Park…..

Last night at Fenway Park, Clay Buchholz threw the first real shutout of Fenway’s 100th anniversary season. It was the third shutout thrown by the staff but you aficionados know what I’m talking about when I say it was a real one. Buchholz finished the … Continue reading

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Red Sox Shutout Pitching Debuts……

What do Billy Rohr, Dave Morehead, Dave ‘Boo” Ferris, George Hockette, Buck O’Brien, Larry Pape and Rube Kroh have in common? Herb Kroh was the first Red Sox pitcher to throw a shutout in the first game he ever pitched. He … Continue reading

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Rounding Out the Pitching Staff with the Rest of the Boys…..

In 1912, the Boston Red Sox pitchers pitched a total of 1,362 innings. The five gentlemen we have already met, Wood, Bedient, O’Brien, Collins and Hall pitched 1, 241 of them! However there were six other pitchers who saw action … Continue reading

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Carlos Luis “Charley” Hall…..The Sea Lion.

We have met the four main cogs of the Red Sox rotation of 1912, “Smokey” Joe Wood, Hugh Bedient, “Buck” O’Brien and Ray Collins. There was a fifth man in the mix and his name was Charley Hall. Now before … Continue reading

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“Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.” Mark Twain

The Red Sox team of 1911 were 78-75 and finished in third place 24 games behind Connie Mack’s World Champion Philadelphia Athletics. They were the youngest team in the league and if they were going to have a legitimate shot at the … Continue reading

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