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Pennsylvania. In August 2005 Rick greatly enjoyed getting together for an autograph show that reunited most of the members of the 1975 Red Sox team. He worked as pitching coach for Lancaster through the 2008, even working for a while in 2007 as interim manager. Wise retired after the 2008 season.
2006, updated October 30, 2009.
2 All quotations from Rick Wise, unless otherwise attributed, are drawn from an interview conducted by the author on September 1, 2005.
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8 1 Kerry Eggers, “Words of the Wise,” Portland Tribune, August 16,
Eggers, “Word of the Wise. Wise said that he then “pitched a nine-inning game and struck out 22. We didn’t see that fellow around again.”
Reading (Pennsylvania) Eagle, August 29, 1983.
e article was published in, among other papers, the Eugene
Register-Guard on August 27, 1964.
Reading Eagle, op. cit.
Meriden (Connecticut) Morning Record, February 17, 1972.
See the UPI story published in various newspapers on August 9, 1969 and in the Boston Herald on August 10, 1968.
Lakeland (Florida) Ledger, March 31, 1978.
Don Amore, “Former Pitcher Battered By Agent’s Misdealings,”
Hartford Courant, August 4, 1991. Eggers, “Words of the Wise.”
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