Remembering Anthony Richard Conigliaro

1967 was the year of the "Impossible Dream" pennant race in Major League Baseball. In 1967, Yaz won the triple-crown award, the Sox went from last-to-first and reached the World Series, the team consisted of names like Yaz, Williams, Tartabull, Petrocelli, and Scott. On this day 41 years ago, a young phenom they called Tony C stepped up to the plate in Fenway Park. Conigliaro was the future of the Boston Red Sox, the youngest player to reach 100 home runs, the man who clobbered 24 HR's as a 19-year-old rookie, a Revere, MA native, St. Mary's of Lynn graduate and true a Bostonian. Tony C encapsulated what it meant to be a true Red Sox icon. It was this faithful day in which the Sox icon's career was in jeropardy. [...]