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Bankof America Higher Standards CRE-ll-AD 2004 Red Sox Spring IN THIS ISSUE Training Schedule 3 Message from the Owners 4 Curt Schilling: Hoping to Change History | Alan Greenwood MARCH/APRIL SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI 8 Keith Foulke: Bringing Relief to Boston | Garry Brown 1 2 3 4 5 MIN BC 1:05 13 Terry Francona: New Man in Town | Ken Powtak 7:05 NU 7:05 7 8 9 16 The Coaching Staff | Rod Oreste NYY MIN 1:05 CIN 1:05 PH11:05 7:05 1:05 1:05 1 1:05 18 Spring Training Memories of Ted Williams | Herb Crehan 14 15 16 17 18 19 2C BAL CIN CLE CLE PIT TOR 36 Visitor’s Scorecard 1:05 7:05 1:05 1:05 1:05 1:05 21 22 23 25 26 27 37 Red Sox Scorecard BAL LA TAM MIN PIT PHI 1:05 1:05 1:05 1:05 1:05 1:05 28 29 30 31 1 2 3 39 New Faces in Red Sox Camp in 2004 | Mark Rogoff FLA BAL TOR PIT MIN ATL ATL 1:05 1:05 1:05 1:05 1:05 7:15 1:15 49 40-Man Roster Home Games 51 Spring training Invitees Vi All times are Eastern and subject to change. ^ 52 40-Man Roster Player Photos 57 Spring Training Invitee Player Photos TICKET PRICES: Box Seats .$21 60 Visiting Teams’ Rosters Reserved Seats .$19 67 Red Sox Special Event Bleachers.$12 69 Springing into Action | Mike Petraglia Standing Room.$10 Grass Seating.$ 6 This spring training magazine is produced by: Dick Bresciani, Vice-President/ Group rates available. 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City of Palms Park 2201 Edison Avenue Fort Myers, FL 33901 www.redsox.com c. n a I c erl ni A h ori N ers at W e %tl N MESSAGE FROM THE OWNERS Dear Red Sox Fans, Spring Training? Already? What a winter! To begin with, it was shorter than usual, thanks to our boys of summer extending their wild and wonderful ride of the “Cowboy Up” season deep into autumn. Then, in our “off season,” (a mis¬ nomer to be sure), we assembled several new players—Curt Schilling, Keith Foulke, Pokey Reese, and Ellis Burks—and continued the ongoing process of ^ .doing our best to keep our core players, such as Trot Nixon, in Boston. All the the New England Patriots lifted our spirits by winning and winning, right iC^^h the Super Bowl. As new manager Terry Francona noted, “Now that’s a ^ i^l^ct to follow!” As winter gives way to welcome spring, we recognize that the challenge is great in 2004. While we have players as talented as any in baseball, we know that each club in the American League East (and West, for that matter) has taken signifi¬ cant measures to improve themselves. We also respect the randomness and unpredictability that keeps baseball so fascinating. Indeed, the “tough act to follow” is also our own. Now, in Florida, we invite you to enjoy the sweet, innocent time of the baseball season. Under blue skies and green palms, you can enjoy the season at its youngest stage. We thank you for joining us here, and for being a part of this new chapter in the riveting story that is the history of the Boston Red Sox. Sincerely, iphn Henry Tom Werner Larry Lucchino fipal Owner Chairman President/CEO ..t p1. jH|H =>•'&: ..-'i* Hoping to Change History Spring Training Edition by Alan Greenwood, Nashua Telegraph A select group of Red Sox fans, those who hap¬ pened to be logged onto the “Sons of Sam Horn” website at the right time, learned something about Curt Schilling, the guy, before his trade from Arizona had been completed. Schilling, under the screen name “Curt38,” joined a couple of dozen fans for an informal chat on the SOSH site, updating them on the state of the negotiations that brought him to the Red Sox from the Diamondbacks. “Once we got past the first two minutes of them calling me a liar and telling me I wasn’t who I was, we got to talking about the situ¬ ation,” Schilling said. “It was fun. It’s what I do when I’m in On a sttt at Fenway Parle in December, Schilling scored a major hit with the fans, who had congregated to purchase tickets, as he posed for photos and signed autographs. Photos ^^iuiie Cordeiro/Boston Red Sox. 2^04 RED SOX MAGAZINE 5 the clubhouse or when I’m hanging out. We were talking baseball. It was a pretty neat thing. “I don’t know what role it played, but it left a huge impression on me,” Schilling said. “I was overwhelmed at their passion, at their incredible desire for this to work out. They all had their own ideas, most of them being to screw the Yankees. But I was over- | whelmed. I was in awe of their intensity in * November when the Patriots are playing , and the Celtics are playing and they’re hav- | ing good years, and the Bruins. It was pret- ’ ty awesome.” A little bigger group of fans got to meet Schilling one December morning at Fenway Park, during a holiday open house. Touring the Red Sox clubhouse, they found the newest addition to the starting rotation waiting for them. They posed for pictures, got autographs, asked questions and left an ^ indelible impression on a 37-year-old veter- an who, presumably, had seen it all in his li travels with the Orioles, Phillies, Astros and ^ Diamondbacks. -r % “The incredible difference here is you have fourth- and fifth-generation Red Sox i fans, as opposed to fourth- and fifth-year 5 Diamondback fans,” Schilling said. “Many 1 \ of the fans tell me about the history of this \ franchise. The Red Sox have brought me here to change that history. “It’s a different world here. The Red Sox are the only team without a home state. They have a home region. And New England lives and dies with this team. You’re going into people’s homes here. Their days are good and bad based on how you do and that’s unique. “I guess I hate the Yankees now.” J Fans needed no further proof that Schilling gets it, no more than they needed reassurance that in trading Casey Fossum, Brandon Lyon, minor league pitching prospect Jorge De La Rosa and a minor lea¬ guer to be named later the Red Sox had received one more premier pitcher for an already strong rotation. “It’s very rare when an organization has "I guess I hate the Yankees now." a chance to acquire a player at the right moment in time with the right team already —Curt Schilling in place that can change the fundamental nature of the team you’re going to put on the field for the next several years,” General 6 Spring Training Edition CURT SCHILLING Manager Theo Epstein said. “Curt gives us a his instant rapport with the fans. Schilling ting a uniformed player only. To let them different look.” looks to be a ballplayer made for Fenway’s know that we will be involved not only with “It’s unbelievable,” first baseman Kevin unique stage, where the intensity and the what the team asked us to be involved in, Millar said. “Knock on wood, but a healthy pressure may fluctuate but never disappear. but with our pocketbook and our time.” Pedro (Martinez), Schilling and Derek “This is the most nervous I’ve ever been Schilling, like Red Sox fans, sometimes Lowe? I would hate to be a right-handed coming into a season,” Schilling said. “Even wonders what might have been had he not hitter facing those guys in a three-game in Philadelphia, there’s a buzz in the stadi¬ been traded to Baltimore for Mike series.” um when the game’s going on and you can Boddicker in 1988. “I know facing him, he was a feel it. Here, that buzz is in the streets and “My memories of the Red Sox are main¬ headache,” Millar added. “He’s a power it’s in the streets now.” ly from Elmira and New Britain and spring pitcher but he’s smart. He doesn’t just over¬ Schilling’s numbers preceded him, of training in Winter Haven,” Schilling said. “I power you. He elevates his fastball whenev¬ course: 163-117 and a 3.33 ERA, 45-13 with remember seeing Wade Boggs and getting a er he wants. He spots his split finger when¬ 609 strikeouts over 516 innings in 2001 and glimpse at the Rocket (Roger Clemens) ever he wants. Schilling wants the ball. He 2002 before a hand injury limited him to 24 from afar before I got a chance to meet him. wants it for nine innings a game. I’m starts in 2003. His 8-9 record last season “I’m very aware of the history of this thrilled to death about this move. I’m as can reasonably be written off as an aberra¬ franchise as it pertains to the history of excited as I’ve been.” tion, particularly factoring in a 2.95 ERA baseball. It’s part of the allure that pertains Beyond pure baseball there is good and 194 strikeouts in 168 innings. to being a Red Sox.” cause for excitement. As demonstrated by What the numbers do not fully reveal is Since leaving the Red Sox, Schilling’s the sort of citizen Schilling lifetime work at Fenway Park is classified as _ has become in each of his statistically irrelevant, a 1-1 record, a dubi¬ baseball homes. He made ous 6.04 earned run average. that much clear within days Still, numbers aside, those handful of of the trade when he and moments sprinkled among 338 career his wife, Shanda, donated starts were sufficient to have Red Sox fans $500,000 to the Jimmy Fund. brooding over what could have been had “When I signed in Schilling not been traded for Boddicker. Arizona, my wife and I made a New Englanders are noted for their chronic half-million dollar commit¬ brooding, particularly over what-might- ment to the United Way, have-beens, most particularly as they apply which is (Diamondbacks to their baseball team. owner Jerry) Colangelo’s char¬ The last time Schilling appeared on ity here in Arizona,” Schilling Fenway’s diamond, on Saturday June 8, said. “We want to be involved 2002, he out-dueled Martinez, 3-2, for his in the community.” first win ever at Fenway. Schilling spoke Schilling is the 2001 afterwards of how much he enjoyed the Roberto Clemente Award Fenway stage. winner, an honor that goes “Packed . . vulgar,” he said. “All the to the player chosen as base¬ things that come with . . loud . . electric . ball’s most active in commu¬ Fenway fans. It’s a fun place to play. nity and charitable causes. “You have to give Schilling all the cred¬ That won’t change in it in the world,” Martinez said that after¬ Boston. noon. “Right now he’s probably the best “We did (the Jimmy Fund pitcher in baseball. Or at least he’s No. 2, donation) as a sign of com- behind his teammate, Randy.” ^ mitment to the community,” And now, he’s right there behind Schilling said. “To let them Martinez. Q Zo know that we will be involved “I want to be part of bringing the first < o not only with what the team World Series in modern history to Boston. § asks us to be involved in, but And hopefully more than one over the next OS with our pocketbook and four years,” Schilling said. “I’m very aware y our time. 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