Post by jamesmcgillstatue on Dec 29, 2017 13:57:02 GMT -5
Who in hell is Al Luplow?
He was an outfielder for the Indians who made probably the most spectacular catch of the 1960s at Fenway Park, off Dick Williams, to rob Williams of a three-run pinch-hit home run on June 27, 1963. All the details are in this mid-1980s retrospective from Sports Illustrated. As a little kid obsessed with baseball, I remember reading and hearing about the catch, but I was (happily) at the beach and not glued to the radio for the live call. And in thwarting Williams, Luplow kept the Sox from sweeping a five-game series with Cleveland, but provided perhaps the singular highlight of Williams' two-year tour as a spare outfielder and first baseman with the Red Sox. He was released by Boston after the 1964 season, signed as a player-coach with the Sox' Seattle affiliate then almost immediately became manager of the 1965 Toronto Maple Leafs through a series of fortunate coincidences and two years later was back with the Red Sox as their manager and created the biggest highlight of his Boston tenure.
Obit.
He was an outfielder for the Indians who made probably the most spectacular catch of the 1960s at Fenway Park, off Dick Williams, to rob Williams of a three-run pinch-hit home run on June 27, 1963. All the details are in this mid-1980s retrospective from Sports Illustrated. As a little kid obsessed with baseball, I remember reading and hearing about the catch, but I was (happily) at the beach and not glued to the radio for the live call. And in thwarting Williams, Luplow kept the Sox from sweeping a five-game series with Cleveland, but provided perhaps the singular highlight of Williams' two-year tour as a spare outfielder and first baseman with the Red Sox. He was released by Boston after the 1964 season, signed as a player-coach with the Sox' Seattle affiliate then almost immediately became manager of the 1965 Toronto Maple Leafs through a series of fortunate coincidences and two years later was back with the Red Sox as their manager and created the biggest highlight of his Boston tenure.
Obit.