The Red Sox are not unique in baseball nor in baseball history for unfortunate trades, player disappointments, injuries, and free agency expenditures that went bust. What would Tony Conigliaro have accomplished if that rising fastball nicked his shoulder? Or the medical science of the present could have repaired Smoky Joe Wood’s extraordinary right arm?
The tragic – from the Boston perspective – of selling the most valuable property to the Yankees have altered history with a no sale instead? And it was not just Babe Ruth as the exodus from Boston to New York provided the core of great Yankee teams and the impetus for Yankee dominance for decades.