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...SPOIL IT or anything, but the 2004 Boston Red Sox had a pretty good year. Yup. Their first in a while. The surprise is what came before it: the youngest general manager in baseball looked at a bunch of underrated players (like power hitter David Ortiz), fussy eccentrics (Nomar Garciaparra, he of the glove-tugging ritual) and petulant superstars (Manny Ramirez) and saw champs. It's both a Moneyball-style triumph of smart management over conventional wisdom and a redemptive story of athletic success as an expression of inner strength...
...thought the move was a good one. It amused me. The folks who?ve been driving the club the last couple of years are clearly having a ball, and are constantly thinking outside the box-whether it?s Dr. Charles?s divertissements or Theo?s trading of Nomar. They?ve kept the game fun-even, often, funny-for the fans. Here was another idea that at least made you perk up, and probably made you smile. ?The Big Guy in the pen,? you said to yourself. ?Wild. Well...
...turns out, Cambridge owes Nomar something—even if Boston doesn?...
When senior Mike Morgalis and classmate Trey Hendricks ’04 pitched live batting practice to then-rehabbing and then-beloved Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra at Fenway Park last spring, Morgalis thought he was done with the sport of baseball...
...don’t know if someone asked him to, but Nomar sat me down for about 15 minutes that last day I threw to him,” Morgalis said after deciding to return in 2005. “He told me that I wasn’t that bad, and that there was no reason I shouldn’t give it a chance. And worst-case scenario, I get to play baseball another year...