a brand-new book to see you through the winter! FROM THE BABE TO THE BEARDS

The World Series? Without the Red Sox this year? Don't fret - there are plenty of great memories you can rely on for right now - and over the winter.

Jim Prime and I were thinking of you. Here's a new book to see you through October, and the winter.

We recommend it!

with David Ortiz's 35th home run, he passes the "halfway point"

With David Ortiz's 35th home run tonight, he passes the "halfway point" - he's got 35 this year and now only needs 34 more to reach 500.

If he can hit two or three more before the season's over, that will reduce the remaining number accordingly.

He just might be able to reach 500 in 2015.

Boston Red Sox biographies, 1901-1925 complete

With the biography of Ike Boone that I turned in today, SABR's BioProject now has a biography of every Boston Red Sox player from 10-1 through 1925 - complete.  There are a dozen or so still in the editing phase, but before too long every one of them will be on the BostonBall.com website.  Most of them already are.

The Butler did it!

"The Butler did it!" It was Elimination Day – the day a loss would officially eliminate the last-place Red Sox from postseason possibilities. And the first-place Orioles jumped out to an 8-0 lead though five. In fact, Bruce Chen has a no-hitter going. The redeeming Red Sox moment in the game came when catcher Dan Butler (0-for-11 prior to the game) connected for his first big-league base hit –a double – in the bottom of the sixth. Butler doubled again in the eighth, and singled in the ninth. In the bottom of the ninth, Carlos Rivero hit his first major-league home run, a three-run homer. Final score? after a five-run bottom of the ninth: 10-6. 

the fourth #7 of the season - Jemile Weeks

Now that Jemile Weeks' Red Sox debut is official, we note that he's the fourth player to wear #7 just this year:

Stephen Drew              2013-14

Ryan Roberts               2014

Kelly Johnson               2014

Jemile Weeks               2014

And the 33rd in Red Sox history.

What a debut: picked off first base in the top of the 10th.

Which former Red Sox player was once called "the most conceited chap in the world"?

You can read about Bill Piercy here:


http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/d177daed

Red Sox players with unique first and last names

Which Sox players have both a first name and a last name, neither of which are shared by anyone else in baseball history? Nope, not Rusney Castillo. Not Hipolito Pichardo. Not Josias Manzanillo. Not George Stone. Not even Covelli Crisp. These are the ones we came up (with three of them from just 2006). If you find another one, be sure to let us know.

Elden Auker

Truman Clevenger

Gar Finnvold

Kason Gabbard

Creighton Gubanich

Devern Hansack

Smead Jolley

Daisuke Matsuzaka

Dustan Mohr

Hideo Nomo

Tomokazu Ohka

Arquimedez Pozo

Osee Schrecengost

Heathcliff Slocumb

LaSchelle Tarver

Ugueth Urbina

One might think Nomar Garciaparra would belong on the list, but Kiko Calero’s full name was Enrique Nomar Calero. Admittedly, that’s pretty obscure.