Reports out of Boston are indicating that long time player, manager and special instructor Johnny Pesky will have his number 6 retired this weekend in a pregame ceremony.
The 89 year old Pesky has spent a great deal of his life associated with the team and still has a locker in the team's locker room.. This is a surprise move because the criteria for this honor (10 years with the team, end career with team and member of the Hall Of Fame) is not met in this case. Pesky is not a membe rof the National Baseball Hall of Fame. He will join Bobby Doerr (1), Joe Cronin (4), Carl Yastrzemski (8), Ted Williams (9) and Carlton Fisk (27) as former Sox players with their numbers retired.
An exception was made for Fisk who ended his playing career with the Chicago White Sox but was hired by the team after his retirement.
Should the team have bent the rules? Or is the team rewarding a man that has meant a great deal to the organization.
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To answer your question it’s the latter more than anything. To a man, past & present Red Sox players as well as people in the front office talk about this man with such glowing admiration. They obviously know best what he means to the organization. There are actually people, albeit not many, calling into WEEI to voice their disapproval of this move by the Red Sox….pretty comical.
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