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June 6 – Happy Birthday Junichi Tazawa
Why Boston signed Junichi Tazawa as an amateur free agent in December 2008 was pretty easy to figure out. Its how they signed him that was sort of unusual. At the time, the Red Sox were getting pretty...
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June 7 – Happy Birthday Heathcliff Slocumb
He will always be remembered by Red Sox Nation as the guy who was traded to bring Jason Varitek and Derek Lowe to Boston. It was the deal that eventually broke the curse of the Bambino and hung a...
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June 8 – Happy Birthday Pete Magrini
Only three members of the Red Sox all-time roster were born on July 8th and none of them appeared in any more than a handful of games for Boston. One of them was a pitcher named Pete Magrini, a Santa...
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June 9 – Happy Birthday Mike Ryba
At first glance, I thought the only member of the all-time Red Sox roster to celebrate a birthday on June 9 might have had an identity problem. His real name was Dominic Joseph Ryba, but everyone knew...
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June 10 – Happy Birthday Pokey Reese
Back in 2000, Pokey Reese was one of the most sought-after middle infielders in the game of baseball. He was the Gold Glove-winning second baseman for the Cincinnati Reds and he was coming off a season...
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June 11 – Happy Birthday Brock Holt
Boston Super-Sub, Brock Holt was originally a ninth-round selection of the Pittsburgh Pirates in the 2009 MLB Draft. He came to Boston as part of the six-player deal that sent reliever Mark Melancon...
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June 12 – Happy Birthday Damon Buford
Boston got Buford and catcher Jim Leyritz in the 1997 trade with Texas for Aaron Sele. Buford impressed Boston fans his first season, hitting .282 and smacking 10 home runs in just 86 games. But he...
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June 13 – Happy Birthday Mel Parnell
“Dusty” was the ace left-hander of the Red Sox pitching staff from 1948 to 1953 when a sore elbow began slowing him down. He used his great fastball and a self-taught slider to go 109-56 during those...
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June 14 – Happy Birthday Luis Aponte
This Venezuelan reliever and an obscure outfielder from the late 1950’s named Herb Plews are the only two players we could find on the Red Sox All-Time roster who were born on Flag Day. Luis Eduardo...
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June 15 – Happy Birthday Wade Boggs
Only Ted Williams has a higher Red Sox lifetime batting average than the .338 figure Boggs hit during his 11-seasons playing in Beantown. Wade won five batting titles as a Red Sox and had seven...
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