BOSTON — Adored by generations of Red Sox fans, Johnny Pesky was so much a part of Boston baseball that the right-field foul pole at Fenway Park was nicknamed for him. BOSTON — Adored by generations of Red Sox fans,
BOSTON — Adored by generations of Red Sox fans, Johnny Pesky was so much a part of Boston baseball that the right-field foul pole at Fenway Park was nicknamed for him.
Pesky, who played, managed and served as a broadcaster for the Red Sox in a baseball career that lasted more than 60 years, died Monday. He was 92.
Pesky died at the Kaplan Family Hospice House in Danvers, according to Solimine, Landergan and Richardson funeral home in Lynn. The funeral home did not have a cause of death.
For many in the legion of Red Sox fans, their last image of Pesky will be from the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park on April 20, when the man who became the team’s unofficial goodwill ambassador was moved to tears at a pregame ceremony.
By then he was in a wheelchair positioned at second base, surrounded by dozens of admiring former players and a cheering crowd.
“I’ve had a good life with the ballclub,” Pesky told The Associated Press in 2004. “I just try to help out. I understand the game, I’ve been around the ballpark my whole life.”
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