Johnny Pesky Passes Away at 92

[Gringo]

http://bostonherald.com/sports/baseball/red_sox/view.bg?articleid=1061152910&format=comments&cnum=1

 

[jacksonianmarch]

92 yrs old. Sad day at fenway

[SemperFi Sox]

that sucks

[Spitball]

Rest in peace, Johnny Pesky. You and your family will be in my prayers.

[Laser Show]

We will need to kill Yogi Berra to make amends. Sorry Jacko, but it must be done.

 

RIP Pesky, we'll miss you.

[SoxSport]

The Red Sox demise this year and their organizational problems didn't help.

 

Pesky was a Pesky hitter--choked up about 3" on his bat--batting LHd. He batted 2nd in a heavy hitting lineup--after Dom Dimaggio and before Ted Williams. Spray-type of hitter, as I recall.

 

He lived 92 years. Very lucky guy.

[Thunder]

Wow. Good player even has a pole named after him. RIP.

[BigPapiEnFuego]

"It might take him 6-7 months to fully recover from this, and he may never be the same again after."

 

-Jacko

[Thunder]

What did he die of? Old age?

[a700hitter]

R.I.P. Needle Nose. My Dad died less than 2 years ago at age 92. He used to get a big kick that Pesky was still hitting fungoes to the guys in his mid 80's.

[a700hitter]

Nomar will shed a tear today. He loved the old guy like a grand father.

[RedSoxfanforlife305]

R.I.P

[Designated Hater]

Rest in peace John. You deserved a better note on which to leave us than what this miserable team in 2012 has given everyone, but you got to see your team win two times so that's pretty cool.

 

You'll be missed and may your legacy live on with that damn pole in right, for better or worse, home and visiting teams wrapping homers around that thing.

 

You were the man, John. Carry on.

[3rdManOut]

R.I.P. Johnny you were always a true Red Sox and will be missed very much.

[Youk Of The Nation]

Sad day not only for his family and friends, not only for the Red Sox, but for baseball in general. He will be missed.

[Dojji]

Well, he had to go sometime. 92 isn't exactly cut down in his prime. He'll be missed, but more importantly he'll be remembered. He had one heck of a run.

 

Here's to a life well lived doing what you love.

[a700hitter]

I saw him many seasons at Spring Training. He used to carry out the lineup card before games in full uniform and joke with the umps and whoever passed his way. He was just enjoying himself. He had such a positive attitude that it was just infectious. The last couple of years, at least, I didn't see him. I figured that he had gotten too frail. In his final year or two at Spring Training he would sit in a chair on the field and give autographs. He loved it.

 

Remy, who has beat cancer, will carry on the mantle of the former Sox player who remains a fixture at Fenway. However, he will be doing it with a microphone and not a uniform. At the old ball park in Ft. Myers fans could walk up to the top of the grandstand behind home plate and be pretty much face to face with the announcers. In between innings, people would stand on their seats and role balls to Remy who never refused signing. He always stayed at his post knowing that people would be flockig there between innings. Pesky and Remy were the two constants for years for me at Spring Training. One is gone. God rest his soul.

[Thunder]

We already have a thread for this..

http://www.talksox.com/forum/talk-sox-forum/16871-johnny-pesky-dead.html

[kapsis21]

RIP sir!

[jete02fan]

sad to hear...my condolences to Sox fans, the Red Sox org and the Pesky family..baseball's lost a classy person and an iconic figure in Beantown..

[Thunder]

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I said the same thing when Steinbrenner died.

[TeddyBallGame9]

I had the pleasure of seeing Johnny Pesky play many times. It was a better, more innocent time back when Johnny played.

 

He really loved the Red Sox.

 

They don't make 'em like that very often anymore.

[InfernoOrangeSS]

R.I.P. to a true Red Sox legend.