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you think about it. ere’s so much that’s more im- portant,” Burton told Hornig.21
Burton died on December 12, 2013. He was survived by his wife, Janet; their three daughters, Heather, Sarah, and Julie; and two granddaughters.
Note
A version of this biography was originally published in ’75: e Red Sox Team at Saved Baseball, edited by Bill Nowlin and Cecilia Tan and published by Rounder Books in 2005.
Sources
Hornig, Doug, e Boys of October (Chicago: Contemporary Books, 2003)
Morgan, Joe, Joe Morgan: A Life in Baseball (New York: W.W. Norton, 1993), 208.
Boston Red Sox media guides
New York Times e Sporting News Washington Post
baseball-reference.com
Notes
1 e Sporting News, July 31, 1971.
2 e Sporting News, September 18, 1971.
3 Providence Journal-Bulletin, date unknown.
4 e Sporting News, May 31, 1975.
5 e Sporting News, June 21, 1975.
6 e Sporting News, June 28, 1975.
7 Doug Hornig, e Boys of October, 233.
8 Hornig, 221.
9 Joe Morgan, Joe Morgan: A Life in Baseball, 208. 10 New York Times, August 23, 1975.
11 Ibid.
12 Hornig, 223.
13 e Sporting News, November 15, 1975.
14 e Sporting News, April 17, 1976.
15 Washington Post, August 4, 1978.
16 e Sporting News, May 15, 1976.
17 Washington Post, August 4, 1978.
18 Ibid.
19 Hornig, 235.
20 Ibid.
21 Hornig, 236.