Red Sox mourn loss of Radatz

More than a decade before the closer became a way of life in Major League Baseball, Dick "The Monster" Radatz, who died at the age of 67 on Wednesday, paved the way for late-inning specialists.
Long before Bruce Sutter, Goose Gossage, Dennis Eckersley or Mariano Rivera, Radatz showed the way it was done and belied an old myth that relievers were nothing more than those not good enough to start.

Radatz indirectly settled into the role of bullpen stopper, thanks to Red Sox legend Johnny Pesky, who, on a whim, made the right-hander a reliever while managing him at Triple-A Seattle in 1961. Full Article>>>

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posted by ADMIN @ Thursday, March 17, 2005