Jeff Bennett's Blog

Happy 90th Birthday Johnny Pesky our beloved “Mr. Red Sox!”
Last year the Red Sox retired his number “6.” Tonight Johnny Pesky was on hand at Fenway Park to celebrate his 90th Birthday.

Boston sports fans have nothing to complain about.  In the last decade the Patriots, Red Sox and Celtics have given us six championships and many runs in the playoffs.  There is overwhelming sentiment with the Bruins as they are having their best season in many wiht a real team oriented approach to hockey.  This era [...]

It is the Eve of Patriot’s Day.  To most of the world this does not mean that much but if you are a Bostonian it means many things.  First off it was tonight that Paul Revere and William Dawes made their famous horseback rides from Boston to the country towns of Lexington and Concord to [...]

Former All-Star pitcher Mark “the Bird” Fidrych was found dead Monday in an apparent accident at his farm in Northborough, Massachusetts.  Mr. Fidrych was 54.
The colorful right-hander was the American League Rookie of the Year in 1976 when he went 19-9 with a 2.34 ERA. He spent all five of his major league seasons with [...]

Curt Shilling retired from Baseball today.  Shilling was one of the best big game pitchers that has played the game and helped the Arizona Diamondbacks and Boston Red Sox to World Series titles.  Shilling won 11 games and lost only 2 in 19 layoff games.  Shilling also won over 200 games in his twenty plus [...]

I have grown up in Boston with some great sports franchises right in this town in the Celtics, Red Sox, Patriots and Bruins.  I played soccer when it was not popular to do so and there was no MLS to look to as a fan.  So as a kid I adopted Manchester United because we were [...]

I had the honor of attending the Massachusetts Soldiers Legacy Fund Breakfast today at the new Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Boston. The MSLF has been established to offer college tuition assistance grants to the children of Massachusetts based Servicemembers who have died while deployed in support of Operation Enduring or Iraqi Freedom. [...]

Politics and elections have always been fodder for water cooler, barber shop and dinner table conversation. In my home growing up politics were more interesting to talk about than the Red Sox. Well that was before the Red Sox started winning World Series Championships. Politics did monopolize our dialogue and it still [...]

Pesky is a legendary sports figure in Boston, but he does not meet the Red Sox criteria for retired numbers. Why should the Red Sox proceed and retire #6?
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I rode in my first PanMass Challenge this Summer. I had always heard that this was a special event. My wife had a wonderful experience riding in 2007 and it surely got our family hooked. This clip from PanMass.Org Web Site says it all:

“Riding in the PMC is a way to channel [...]