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46 ’75—THE RED SOX TEAM THAT SAVED BASEBALL
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orn, John, ed., Total Baseball, 8th Edition (Wilmington, Delaware: Sport Classic Books, 2004).
Goode, Jon, “Catching Up With Fred Lynn,” Boston.com, August 27, 2004.
e Sporting News, various issues.
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retrosheet.org
Fredlynn.net
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Notes
1 Children’s ages are as of 2014.
2 Harvey and Frederic Frommer, Growing Up Baseball (Dallas: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2001), 144.
3 mlbnetwork-origin.mlb.com/network/games_airdates/. Retrieved October 22, 2014.
4 e sentiment was re ected in Whiteside’s column “It Was A Whole Lot More Fun Last Year,” in the June 11, 1976, Boston Globe.
5 e Sporting News, April 2, 1977, 21.
6 Jon Goode, “Catching Up With Fred Lynn,” Boston.com,
August 27, 2004.
7 Later on, the team would fall into the hands of Mrs. Yawkey, Haywood Sullivan, former player personnel director, and Buddy Leroux, former Red Sox and Boston Celtics trainer. e union would not be a happy one. In 1983 an acrimonious lawsuit took place. Sullivan and Yawkey wanted to run the Red Sox as Tom Yawkey had, but Buddy LeRoux always had his eye on the bottom line. Eventually LeRoux sold his interest in the Red
Sox and Sullivan ran the team for Mrs. Yawkey. One wonders whether Tom Yawkey would have found a way to keep the three.
8 Fred Lynn letter to author, August 2014. 9 Frommer and Frommer, 148.