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The pole was named after Johnny Pesky, a non-power-hitting shortstop and long-time coach for the Red Sox, who hit some of his six home runs at Fenway Park around the pole but never off the pole. Pesky (playing 1942 to 1952, except for 1943 to 1945) was a contact hitter who hit just 17 home runs in his career (6 at Fenway Park). [ 81 ]
Johnny Pesky's number 6 was retired by the Boston Red Sox in 2008. Pesky (right) and Bobby Doerr (left) at Fenway's 100th Anniversary. On his 87th birthday, September 27, 2006, the Red Sox honored Pesky by officially naming the right-field foul pole "Pesky's Pole", although it had already been unofficially known as such. On September 23, 2008 ...
It’s commonly said [according to whom?] that following a victory in Fenway during which Johnny Pesky hit a game-winning home run near the right-field foul pole, Parnell named it "Pesky's Pole." However, research shows that Pesky hit only one home run in a game pitched by Parnell, a two-run shot in the first inning of a game against Detroit on ...
BOSTON (AP) — There's no other ballpark in the majors where Luis Robert Jr.'s 311-foot line drive would have been a home run. Heck, it might not have even gotten high enough to clear Fenway Park ...
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The Teammates: A Portrait of a Friendship is a bronze sculpture in Boston, Massachusetts which stands outside Fenway Park's Gate 5, at the corner of Ipswich street and Van Ness Street. The sculpture depicts Boston Red Sox teammates (from left to right): Bobby Doerr, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, and Ted Williams. The statue was erected in honor ...
Verdugo homered over the Pesky Pole after Justin Turner’s RBI single, making it 3-0 in the first. In the second, Duran sent his into the first row of Green Monster seats when Boston made it 5-0.
Carlton Fisk's 1975 World Series home run was a baseball play that occurred in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series on October 21, 1975, at Fenway Park in Boston, Massachusetts.. The Boston Red Sox defeated the Cincinnati Reds, 7–6, forcing a deciding seventh game, when Carlton Fisk hit a home run in the 12th inning home run to cap off what many consider to be the best World Series game ever play