Sox To Retire #6

1, 4, 8, 9, 27. Those are the only five numbers that the Boston Red Sox have retired in their storied history as a Major League Baseball franchise. On Friday they will do something that they have not in quite some time (2000) as they will add a sixth number to that list. Ironically, that number will be the number 6, worn proudly by Johnny Pesky for ten years as a player for the Red Sox and several more as a coach.

Pesky, who is best known for Fenway's right field foul pole which bares his name, has ties with all five of the other retirees. He played with Bobby Doerr (No. 1), Joe Cronin (No. 4), and Ted Williams (No. 9) and then coached both Carl Yastrzemski (No. 8) and Carlton Fisk (No. 27).