The Boston Red Sox of the early 1960s were a wretched team to watch at least until 1967 resuscitated baseball in Boston. From 1959 to 1966 the team never surfaced above .500 and the grand level of ineptness was in 1965 when they lost 100 games. Fenway Park was a disgraceful wreck and so was the team.
An occasional bright light did surface to stir some level of emotion among what remained of Red Sox fans – a batting title for young Carl Yastrzemski in 1963. One for Pete Runnels in 1960 and another in 1962.