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Originally Posted by DeweyintheHall
OK - so only tonight I discovered a 10-year old video on Youtube produced by the Red Sox, called the Dwight Evans Story.
At one point he talks about being in Louisville in 1972, being told by manager Darrell Johnson he had 8 games to find his swing. He said Stan Williams, the veteran with the club, helped him out.
Then the video provided this image of Williams.
I don't want to get too excited but - these match road unis the Sox wore in 1972; the hat looks like it's navy.
To me, this could be Williams with the Sox in '72. He was released in September so I don't think he was with them in the spring of 1973.
One question I have is where could this have been taken - it looks like a spring site because of the trees, but again I don't think he was ever with them in the spring as a player.
Anyone out there want to offer an opinion as to whether this actually shows him as a player with the Sox?
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Originally Posted by DeweyintheHall
I may have answered my own question - according to Baseball Reference he wore both 25 and 50 during his brief stint with the Sox in 1972, not 26.
As a coach he wore 32 both years, so the plot thickens.
I checked the Sporting News spring roster for 1973 and he doesn't appear. It doesn't say explicitly if it includes NRIs or not. Anyone have their list for 1973?
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Originally Posted by LansdowneSt
The Globe didn't look to have a NRI list but when Peter Gammons contemplated the roster in early February, he wasn't one of the pitchers listed.
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1972 was the last year the Sox wore button-down unis until 1979, when Williams was a Yankees minor league coach. His SABR bio says he was out of baseball in 1973, but he managed the Bristol Red Sox in 1974. I'm not sure how long the Sox used old uniforms for spring training, but if this image/video wasn't from 1972, the only other possibility I can think of would be spring training 1974. If they had already moved to pullover spring training jerseys by then, by default it would have to be from 1972.