RED SOX FAN IN NEBRASKA

The week started off reasonably well with a win in the final game of the Rays series, and taking three out of four from the White Sox.  Then...

In this series, I look at one player per year from 1991-the present who came out of nowhere or had a great year that no one really noticed o...

Trot Nixon was not a completely unknown player. He was the seventh overall pick in the 1993 draft and of course he was a big player on th...

The Hall of Fame has inducted many players who were borderline choices, and many players who deserve induction have been on the outside look...

After doing Herb Pennock yesterday, I was looking at plaques and came across Jimmy Collins.  Collins spent seven years with the then-Boston ...

1991 was the first season I watched baseball.  I was 10.  I do not remember watching too many games that season.  More than anything, I just...

The cap a player wears on his Hall of Fame plaque is important.  It is meant to signify the team the player made his most indelible mark wit...

A lot of people are saying "what the hell?" right now.  It's true though when you look at WAR numbers, Scott Fletcher had a...

In this series, I look at my first team set: 1991 Topps.  This was the set I started my baseball card collection with. This was one of m...

In this series, I look at one player per year from 1991-the present who came out of nowhere or had a great year that no one really noticed o...

Felix Doubront has been one of the Red Sox best pitchers so far this year.  He leads the team in wins, ERA, and strikeouts while being se...

Jack Chesbro is a Hall of Famer.  He is somewhat of a questionable choice, most of his merits have been tied into his 1904 season when he wo...

Last year, I made a post about relatives to play for the Red Sox here .  Last year there was a new addition to that list with the acquisitio...

I was curious as to which Hall of Famers played for the Red Sox each year.  Here is the breakdown: 1901: Jimmy Collins, Cy Young 1902: Ji...

In this series, I look at one player per year from 1991-the present who came out of nowhere or had a great year that no one really noticed o...

I am late to this.  I was very disappointed that Boston decided to trade Youkilis on one hand, but on the other, it was clearly time to m...

For my birthday this year, my wife bought tickets to the Red Sox visiting the Royals on May 7 .  This was the first game in six years that I...

This has been a very frustrating year.  The injury bug has really taken a toll with about half the team spending time on the disabled list a...

Since I did an absolutely terrible job of keeping caught up on this, I figured I would just do one big post covering all of the Red Sox acqu...

Luis Tiant was passed over again in the Veterans' Committee ballot and based on the names, I think it is pretty safe to say that no form...