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two months before being discharged into the care of Billy and the Conigliaro family. He lived another eight years before succumbing at age 45 on February 24, 1990.
Sources
Cataneo, David, Tony C. (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1997).
Conigliaro, Tony, with Jack Zanger, Seeing It rough (New York: Macmillan, 1970).
Crehan, Herb, Red Sox Heroes of Yesteryear (Cambridge, Massachusetts: Rounder Books, 2005).
Williams, Dick, with Bill Plaschke, No More Mr. Nice Guy (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990).
anks to Wayne McElreavy for considerable assistance with this pro le.
Notes
1 Tony Conigliaro, with Jack Zanger, Seeing It rough (New York: Macmillan, 1970), 130.
2 Seeing It rough, 133.
3 Seeing It rough, 145, 146. Some contemporary press reports put the gure at $25,000.
4 Seeing It rough, 167.
5 Seeing It rough, 178.
6 Dick Williams, with Bill Plaschke, No More Mr. Nice Guy (San Diego: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990), 73.
7 David Cataneo, Tony C. (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1997), 65.
8 Interview with Ed Penney on August 15, 2006. 9 Seeing It rough, 10.
10 Cataneo, 108.
11 Seeing It rough, 124.
12 Seeing It rough, 82.
13 Herb Crehan, Red Sox Heroes of Yesteryear (Cambridge,
Massachusetts: Rounder Books, 2005), 179.
14 Cataneo, 195.
15 Cataneo, 202, 203.
16 Cataneo, 203. For more on Billy Conigliaro’s feelings on the subject, see his biography for SABR’s BioProject.
17 Both the Morgan and Hunter statements are in Cataneo, 223. 18 Associated Press wire story, August 23, 1975.