Red Sox Legends by Jennifer Latchford

Author:Jennifer Latchford
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Published: 2011-09-30T00:00:00+00:00

This photograph shows Mel Parnell throwing batting practice from the mound at Fenway Park, the left field wall is visible behind.

Dick Thompson photograph, reprinted with permission from the New England Sports Museum Collection, 1949

It was quite a thrill (my rookie year) because I used to keep pictures of most of the players and put them on my bedroom wall. Then here’s Jimmie Foxx, and [Lefty] Grove, and [Pinky] Higgins, and [Doc] Cramer, and all those great ballplayers. In fact, I think they were still on my bedroom wall when I joined the club in 1937. It was quite a thrill walking into that ballpark and seeing Jimmie Foxx hitting balls and then see Joe Cronin, the manager. Hugh Duffy was a coach at that time. I remember him hitting me balls, he hit one to my right and one to my left; I was in pretty good shape because I worked out before I got down there in Los Angeles where my folks lived, but my gosh, he would hit me balls to my right and my left and my right and I didn’t think he was ever going to quit.

I’ll never forget, back then the offices were right behind third base in the stands there and Cronin took me out of the office and we stood in back of the stands. And he said, “This is what you’re going to be looking at now for some time,” and oh what a thrill it was to see that ballpark, it was just so beautiful. Back then they had signs on the left field wall, advertising signs. It was just such a thrill, and I can see just like it was yesterday.

—Bobby Doerr

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