Lest we forget: Johnny Pesky (updated)

August 13, 2012

The Boston Red Sox legend died today at the age of 92.

Pesky is a staple of any history on the team. He published Diary of a Red Sox Season in 2007 with Maureen Mullen and was the subject of Bil Nowlin’s Mr. Red Sox: The Johnny Pesky Story, in 2004. He was also one of the subjects of David Halberstame’s neo-classic, The Teammates.

Boston.com, the web presence of the Boston Globe, posted this slideshow on Pesky. Here’s the obituary from the Boston Herald.

Update: Richard Goldstein’s obituary of Pesky in The New York Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/14/sports/baseball/johnny-pesky-red-sox-fixture-dies-at-92.html?_r=1&ref=obituaries

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