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	Johnny Pesky--former Red Sox Great was key to Boston's pennant-contending clubs; during his 10 seasons in the majors, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Johnny Pesky--former Red Sox Great was key to Boston's pennant-contending clubs; during his 10 seasons in the majors, he was one of the top shortstops of his era.
		Pesky, however, harbors no resentment about what might have been, choosing to dwell instead on his marvelous years in Boston when the Red Sox were perennial contenders in the mid- and late- 1940s.
		Pesky was a clubhouse attendant for Portland's Pacific Coast League franchise.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-131275939.html (1987 words)

	Boston Red Sox - Ruthie Pesky, wife of Red Sox' Johnny Pesky - The Boston Globe
		Ruthie Pesky, the wife of Boston Red Sox special assignment instructor Johnny Pesky for 60 years, died yesterday after a long illness, the team announced.
		Pesky's 85-year-old husband missed the start of spring training this year to be with her and showed up in mid-March at the team's training camp in Fort Myers, Fla.
		Pesky is in his 53d season with the Red Sox and has served as player, manager, coach, broadcaster, and advertising salesman.
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2005/07/09/ruthie_pesky_wife_of_red_sox_johnny_pesky (322 words)

	Johnny Pesky - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pesky was a teammate and close friend of Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio.
		Pesky missed the entire 1983 season with a serious allergy that caused severe weight loss, but once the source of the illness was discovered, he was able to return for a final season as a fulltime coach in 1984.
		Pesky attended the 2004 World Series and, after the Game 4 triumph, was embraced by current Boston players such as Tim Wakefield and Curt Schilling as a living representative of star Red Sox players of the past whose teams fell short of winning the Fall Classic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Johnny_Pesky (1260 words)

	Major League Cruelty in a Minor Matter
		Johnny Pesky is a former major league baseball player of considerable note.
		Pesky's presence on the bench did not confer any strategic advantages on the Red Sox in their games with Baltimore; anyone who watched Johnny manage the Sox from 1962-1964 will vouch for that.
		Baseball buffs may recall that Pesky was designated the "goat" of the Sox-Cards Series in 1946, when Enos Slaughter scored the winning run while Red Sox shortstop Pesky supposedly "held the ball." It would be especially appropriate for him to be on hand as his beloved Sox seek to avenge that defeat.
	www.ethicsscoreboard.com /list/pesky.html (598 words)

	Johnny Pesky—former Red Sox Great was key to Boston's pennant-contending clubs; during his 10 seasons in the ...
		Johnny Pesky—former Red Sox Great was key to Boston's pennant-contending clubs; during his 10 seasons in the majors, he was one of the top shortstops of his era
		Pesky, however, harbors no resentment about what might have been, choosing to dwell instead on his marvelous years in Boston when the Red Sox were perennial contenders in the mid- and late- 1940s.
		Pesky was a clubhouse attendant for Portland's Pacific Coast League franchise.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0FCI/is_3_64/ai_n13606901 (998 words)

	Amazon.ca: Mr. Red Sox : The Johnny Pesky Story: Books: Bill Nowlin (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Not only is this a great history of Johnny Pesky and the Red Sox but it also gives a nice insight into what it was like to be an American male during the WWII period.
		You still see the enthusiastic octogenerian Johnny Pesky on the field before every Red Sox game at Fenway with his fungo bat, delightful grin and his obvious love for the game of baseball and the Boston Red Sox.
		Pesky, 84, will be at spruced-up Fenway Park on Friday when the team opens its home schedule against the Toronto Blue Jays, and like all Red Sox fans, he's sure this is the year they'll win it all for the first time since 1918.
	www.amazon.ca /Mr-Red-Sox-Johnny-Story/dp/1579400884 (1067 words)

	BIOPROJ.SABR.ORG :: The Baseball Biography Project.
		Johnny Pesky's career got off to an unparalleled start, and could have propelled him into the Hall of Fame had World War II not pulled three prime years out.
		Johnny hit safely a league-leading 208 times that season, with a.335 average (3rd in the league), scoring 115 times (second behind Ted's 142.) The Series was a disappointing one for Pesky, as it was for two other players named Musial (who batted.222 in Series play) and Williams (.200).
		Pesky was a clever infielder as well; three times he pulled the rare hidden ball trick, and would have done so a fourth time had the pitcher not stepped off the rubber at the wrong moment.
	bioproj.sabr.org /bioproj.cfm?a=v&v=l&bid=456&pid=11123 (2683 words)

	Johnny Pesky \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Pesky took the cutoff throw with his back to the plate, checked Walker at first, then saw too late that Slaughter was racing home.
		Pesky admitted he had misplayed the ball, the play was scored an error, and Trucks had his second no-hitter.
		In his rookie season, the lefthanded-hitting Pesky collected 205 hits (a Red Sox rookie record) to lead the league, and finished second in the batting race to teammate Ted Williams with a.331 average.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/P/Pesky_Johnny.stm (1312 words)

	The Myths of Johnny Pesky - Addict Baseball and Football Forum
		That’s “Pesky” as in Johnny Pesky (born John Michael Paveskovich, 9/27/19), the same Johnny Pesky who’s been employed by the Boston Red Sox for the better part of the last sixty years.
		Pesky is now eighty years old, and officially employed as a Special Assignment Instructor (which sounds a hell of a lot like a sinecure to me, but then he’s probably earned it).
		Pesky was (and is) not a particularly small man. At five feet, nine inches and 170 pounds, he was right around average for a ballplayer of his era.
	www.addictsports.com /baseball/showthread.php?t=472 (1800 words)

	Excerpt \| The Teammates: A Portrait of Friendship by David Halberstam
		In early October 2001, Dominic DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky begin a 1,300-mile trip by car to visit their beloved teammate Ted Williams, knowing that he is dying.
		Pesky loved the idea and he too quickly signed on, and in the way that these things are decided without being formally decided, it was agreed that Dominic and Dick would share the driving and John, 82, would sit in the backseat.
		Pesky's nose was indeed rather long and sharp, especially in relation to his body, which was rather small.
	www.januarymagazine.com /features/teammatesexc.html (1279 words)

	Johnny Pesky - SoSH \| Boston Red Sox \| Red Sox Rumors \| Spring Training \| Pawtucket Red Sox
		Even though Pesky's Pole was dubbed as such in the 1950s, the phrase really didn't become popular-common knowledge to fans until the late 1980s-to-early 1990s.
		According to former Red Sox star Johnny Pesky, it was Sox pitcher Mel Parnell who coined the term, after Pesky hit a home run just beyond Fenway Park's right-field foul pole.
		Johnny Pesky managed the Boston Red Sox for parts of the 1963, 1964, and 1980 seasons.
	www.sonsofsamhorn.net /wiki/index.php/Johnny_Pesky (700 words)

	MSG
		FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP) - Johnny Pesky broke a bone in his lower leg when he was hit by a line drive at a college game, and the 86-year-old Red Sox icon was headed back to Boston.
		The lovable Pesky, who serves as a Red Sox instructor during spring training, sustained a non-displaced fracture of the left fibula near his ankle on Saturday while watching a game between Suffolk University of Boston and Denison of Ohio on a back field at Red Sox camp.
		Pesky said he had gotten up to talk to Suffolk's manager about some advice he had for the team's shortstop when he was struck by a line drive in the fourth inning.
	www.msgnetwork.com /content_news.jsp?articleID=v978703-19-06-1852EST&newsgroup=ap.sportsml.baseball.mlb.news/other&sports=baseball&team=other&league=mlb (549 words)

	Boston Red Sox : History : Timeline (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pesky started his Red Sox career in 1942 and with a few years off here and there, it has never ended.
		As a player, Pesky was the tablesetter for the big bats of Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr and Vern Stephens.
		Pesky was traded to the Detroit Tigers in 1952, but would return to the Red Sox organization to serve as a coach, announcer and assistant general manager.
	boston.redsox.mlb.com /NASApp/mlb/bos/history/bos_history_timeline_article.jsp?article=1942 (304 words)

	Friends Johnny Pesky recalls years with Ted Williams: 2/25/01
		Pesky did lead the AL in hits in each of his first three seasons but wasn't nearly as good as Williams.
		Pesky remembers him swinging a heavy bat in front of a mirror in his apartment near Fenway Park.
		Pesky also was at the stadium in 1999 for the All-Star game when a frail Williams was driven to the pitcher's mound in a golf cart to thunderous applause.
	www.southcoasttoday.com /daily/02-01/02-25-01/c06sp102.htm (1064 words)

	ESPN.com - 'Pesky held the ball' a part of BoSox lore
		Pesky was a.307 hitter in his career, a teammate of Ted Williams, Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio.
		Pesky didn't want to leave his house when he returned to Oregon, and when he did go to a football game he was heckled by a drunk.
		Pesky thought he would get another chance, but he never played in another Series.
	sports.espn.go.com /espn/print?id=1907568&type=story (860 words)

	Newsvine - Red Sox Rename Foul Pole for Pesky (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Pesky, a 56-year member of the organization, was honored on his 87th birthday with an on-field ceremony.
		For years, many have referred to the pole as "Pesky's Pole" when batters have hit homers down the short right-field line, where the pole stands 302 feet away.
		Pesky played with the Red Sox in 1942 and 1946-52, hitting.313, and held the club record for most hits by a rookie with 205 until Nomar Garciaparra broke it with 209 in 1997.
	www.newsvine.com /_news/2006/09/27/377767-red-sox-rename-foul-pole-for-pesky (338 words)

	Notebook: Johnny Pesky has spring fever & Other Red Sox News - Addict Baseball and Football Forum
		Pesky also told redsox.com that he was planning on attending the annual Hitters' Hall of Fame induction ceremonies on Feb. 17 at the Ted Williams Museum in Hernando, Fla. New Red Sox hitting coach Dwight Evans will be among those honored at the museum.
		Pesky was also relieved to hear that Williams was recovering nicely from the low blood pressure and flu-like symptoms that landed the Red Sox legend in the hospital last week.
		A familiar sight: Former Red Sox infielder Johnny Pesky will be hitting fungos and greeting fans at 2002 Spring Training in Fort Myers, Fla. The 82-year-old Pesky has been with the Red Sox organization for 57 years as a player, coach and manager.
	www.addictsports.com /baseball/showthread.php?t=3798 (837 words)

	Pesky's Pole - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Pesky's Pole, or Pesky Pole, is the nickname for the right field foul pole at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox.
		It is named after Johnny Pesky, who played second base, shortstop and third base for the Red Sox from 1942 to 1952, except for 1943-45 during World War II.
		Pesky was a slap hitter who hit just 17 home runs in his career (6 at Fenway Park) [1]; thus, he was a hitter who would have benefited greatly from the short, easy-to-reach fence.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pesky's_Pole (338 words)

	SportingNews.com - MLB - Red Sox icon Johnny Pesky hit by line drive
		Pesky, 86, who serves as an instructor during spring training, suffered a non-displaced fracture of the left fibula near his ankle on Saturday while watching a game between Suffolk and Denison of Ohio being played at the Red Sox spring training facility.
		Pesky, still a fan favorite who signs hundreds of autographs in spring training, planned to return to Boston on Monday.
		Pesky said he got up to give Suffolk's manager some advice when he was struck in the fourth inning.
	www.sportingnews.com /yourturn/viewtopic.php?t=73747 (552 words)

	Boston - Pesky blurb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Johnny Pesky is widely known as "Mister Red Sox." He signed with Boston in the late 1930s and played in their farm system for the 1940 and 1941 seasons.
		Johnny joined the Red Sox in 1942 at shortstop and was, in effect, the American League Rookie of the Year.
		Johnny then moved to thirdbase where he was the regular, 1948-50, beside Vern Stephens.
	world.std.com /~pgw/Boston/regional.0110.pesky.html (275 words)

	Visit by Red Sox legends DiMaggio, Doerr and Pesky honors friend, teammate's memory (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Johnny Pesky's World Series ring is a hit with Stephanie Jean of the Jimmy Fund Clinic.
		The biggest thrill for many of the youngsters was trying on Pesky's mammoth 2004 World Series ring, which he received for being a special instructor with last year's championship club.
		The couple, along with Doerr and Pesky, have all received the Thomas A. and Jean R. Yawkey Award – the Jimmy Fund's highest honor, named for the former Red Sox owners and DFCI benefactors.
	www.dfci.harvard.edu /abo/news/press/red-sox-dimaggio-doerr-pesky-honors-friend.asp (675 words)

	Boston Red Sox, Major League Baseball, New York Yankees - CBS SportsLine.com
		BOSTON -- Johnny Pesky finally took the field as a champion in one of the most touching aspects of the Red Sox's pregame World Series ring ceremony.
		Pesky celebrated the Red Sox's first title in 86 years, helping raise the championship banner and receiving a ring.
		Pesky has spent most of his 64-year baseball career with Boston as a player, manager, coach, broadcaster and now as special instructor.
	cbs.sportsline.com /mlb/story/8377413 (479 words)

	Pesky Pole at Fenway Park - Red Sox Connection
		In fact, Johnny Pesky hit only 17 home runs in his entire 10-year career, and only six of those were at Fenway Park.
		Even though Pesky's Pole was dubbed that in the 1950s, the phrase really didn't become popular until the late 1980s or early 1990s.
		Pesky himself has been a vital cog to the Red Sox organization, still on the payroll 60 years after his pre-World War II debut.
	www.redsoxconnection.com /peskypole.html (726 words)

	(E) Croatian Johnny Pesky and the Red Sox, October 28, 2004
		American Johnny Pesky who is still involved in the organization and was interviewed by members of the press in the Red Sox locker room as the team celebrated their victory.
		In Pesky's honor, one of the portions of Fenway Park in Boston is called Pesky's Pole (it is one of the home run poles in outfield) and he is a member of the Red Sox hall of fame.
		Pesky along with Red Sox great Ted Williams and others was the subject of another book which appeared in 2002 by award winning writer David Halberstam called "The Teammates." You can get both books at many book stores or on Amazon.
	www.croatianworld.net /Letters/4805.htm (2952 words)

	Dispatches from Red Sox Teen Nation: Happy Birthday Johnny Pesky
		Pesky was born as John Michael Paveskovich to Croatian immigrant parents.
		Pesky was also accused by Jack Lang of the Associated Press of holding the ball as the Cardinals’ Enos Slaughter made a mad dash from second to home, putting the Cardinals ahead 4-3.
		Pesky was only barred from sitting on the bench twice during the 21 years in which he did not serve as a coach, once by Dan Duquette and more recently by the complaint of the Baltimore Orioles.
	catchingredsox.mlblogs.com /dispatches_from_red_sox_t/2006/09/happy_birthday_.html (1459 words)

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