RIP, Dick Williams

[thirstyboots18]

Best manager the Red Sox has ever had, IMO, championship or not.

[slamtheking]

Best manager the Red Sox has ever had, IMO, championship or not.

Give me Don "Gerbil" Zimmer any day   

[Neurotic Guy]

If my math is correct, Dick Williams was 38 when he managed the Sox in '67.  That amazes me.  He seemed like an old guy back then (I was 9).   

I remember I had a pin stuck onto my bulletin board in my bedroom -- it said "Dick Williams for President".  That's what it was like that fall of '67 -- Williams had taken a perrenial basement dweller and tranformed them into an inspired winner.  He owned this town in the summer and fall of 1967.  An emotional year -- young Conigliaro beaned; Yaz playing O & D like a monster; Lonborg winning 20; a number of individual plays etched indelibly in the minds of Boston's youth.

Dick Williams could do no wrong for that marvelous moment in time.

[Redz]

If my math is correct, Dick Williams was 38 when he managed the Sox in '67.  That amazes me.  He seemed like an old guy back then (I was 9).   

I remember I had a pin stuck onto my bulletin board in my bedroom -- it said "Dick Williams for President".  That's what it was like that fall of '67 -- Williams had taken a perrenial basement dweller and tranformed them into an inspired winner.  He owned this town in the summer and fall of 1967.  An emotional year -- young Conigliaro beaned; Yaz playing O & D like a monster; Lonborg winning 20; a number of individual plays etched indelibly in the minds of Boston's youth.

Dick Williams could do no wrong for that marvelous moment in time.

Good stuff NG. 

I was born in `68 and still worshipped the `67 team as a kid.  They were absolute heros.

Dick had an interesting career.