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The 2007 season marked the 40th anniversary of The Impossible Dream, which was honored and marked with Opening Day ceremonies featuring members of the 1967 Red Sox team and an hour-long documentary on NESN (a regional sports network part-owned by the Red Sox) called Impossible to Forget. [26]
1967 was the season of the "Impossible Dream" for the Red Sox (referring to the hit song from the musical Man of La Mancha), who rebounded from a ninth-place finish a year before to win the American League pennant (their first since 1946) on the last day of the season. [19]
The "Impossible Dream" Red Sox were led by triple crown winner Carl Yastrzemski (who won the Most Valuable Player award for his 1967 performance) and ace pitcher Jim Lonborg, who won the American League Cy Young Award. The Red Sox reached the World Series by emerging victorious from a dramatic four-team pennant race that revitalized interest in ...
Red Sox fans know 1967 as the season of the "Impossible Dream". The slogan refers to the hit song from the popular musical play " Man of La Mancha ". 1967 saw one of the great pennant races in baseball history with four teams in the AL pennant race until almost the last game.
In the 1967 Red Sox' "Impossible Dream" season, [5] Lonborg tied for the American League (AL) lead for pitchers in wins (22) and games started (39), and led the AL in strikeouts (246). [12] He also led the league in hitting batters (19), [12] after his pitching style changed under the tutelage of pitching coach Sal "The Barber" Maglie. [1] [13]
This one cleared the short wall in front of the Red Sox bullpen in the third inning of a scoreless, hitless game to give San Francisco a 1-0 lead. Giants manager Bob Melvin thanked “the baseball ...
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During the Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season of 1967, he was hit in the face by a pitch that caused a severe eye injury and derailed his career. Though he would make a comeback from the injury, his career was not the same afterwards, as he lost vision in one eye over time.