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2 unusual facts about Lynn Red Sox


Lynn Red Sox

“I remember one game against the Lynn Red Sox," Newcombe recalled in 2007. "Their manager, Thomas ‘Pep’ Kennedy, was all over us, yelling all kinds of racial things at us, and Mr. Buzzie Bavasi the Nashua general manager and future Dodger executive got him into the office and said, ‘They can’t fight you, but I can. If you have any guts, you’ll say to me what you said to them.’ Of course, he didn’t say a word.

The Essex County city fielded a Detroit Tigers farm club — the Lynn Tigers, initially managed by Kennedy — for the first three months of 1949 but withdrew from the league July 19.



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