Former Boston Red Sox manager Terry Francona spoke with Boston sports radio station WEEI on Wednesday, his first public comments since he parted ways with the team last week.
Francona, who guided the Red Sox to World Series victories in 2004 and 2007, said that after the team’s historic late-season skid he chose to leave.
Want to own a part of baseball history? The ball that went through Bill Buckner’s legs in game six of the 1986 world Series will hit eBay on October 15, and the auction will close 10 days later at the exact minute of the 25th anniversary of Buckner’s error.
Bidding starts at a cool $1 million.
On the heels of Red Sox manager Terry Francona being let go this morning, David Letterman’s “Top Ten Things Overheard in the Red Sox Clubhouse” will be seriously painful to Red Sox fans (but funny for everyone else).
September 30, 2011 Terry Francona, who led the Boston Red Sox to two World Series titles, and five playoff appearances, likely won't be back as the team's manager in 2012.
The Red Sox failed to make the playoffs, after blowing a nine-game game lead in the American League wild-card race, the biggest ever held by a team in September that failed to make the playoffs.
Francona will meet with Red Sox management this morning, and the expected outcome is that the team simply won't pick up an option year on his contract for next year.
September 19, 2011 Back in 2005, the Houston Astros reached the Major League Baseball World Series for the first time in franchise history.
Now, just six short years later, the Astros have lost 100 games in a season for the first time, ever.
How did the Astros go from being one of the top organizations in baseball, to one that will likely be drafting first, in the 2012 First-Year Player Draft?
Some Texas Rangers’ fans had even more reason to cheer for Josh Hamilton after he belted a grand slam on Wednesday night: they won a refund from CC Carpet.
The local flooring company is now making good on its promotional promise to issue refunds to customers who purchased flooring or countertops in September if the star hit a bases-clearing home run.
Foul tips are one of the perils of playing the catcher position in baseball, but one doesn’t usually associate fire hazard with that risk. In the video below, a foul ball off the bat of the Chicago White Sox’s A.J. Pierzynski hits the mask of Detroit Tigers’ catcher Alex Avila so hard that sparks fly.
September 7, 2011 A little over a year ago, Nationals pitching phenom Stephen Strasburg was all the rage in the sports world. Then he tore an ulnar collateral ligament, requiring Tommy John surgery. Nearly 13 months later, Strasburg made his much awaited return to the majors last night. Scott breaks down the return of the phenom.
