![]() Thank you Mom, for loving me as much as you did. My mom, knowing how much I loved the team, and baseball itself, let me stay home “sick” from school to watch the 7th game. I lived and died with the Boston Red Sox that season, even sleeping in my number 8 white short sleeve Jersey with red sleeves. The students won their protest, amid cheers from every student, returned to class, and the games were shown in every classroom. The students refused, till the Monsignor, and the nuns agreed to televise the World Series. The nuns, not knowing what to do, called the Monsignor of the parish to the school to force the students back to class. The protest cascaded down through every grade, every student refusing to go to class. ![]() 1967 was a year when protests were common in America, and so it was when the 8th graders led a protest on the outside courtyard of the school, refusing to go back to class, unless the nuns televised the World Series. The school housed classes 1st through 8th grades. When the Red Sox went to the World Series in 1967, the nuns refused to let the students watch the games in the classrooms, even though each classroom had a television. I attended Notre Dame de Lourdes parochial school, 3rd grade. In 1967 I was 9 years old living in Lowell, Mass. The following is a complete listing including date of death and age at death. ![]() In addition, we have lost the following non-player personnel:Ĭatcher Jerry Moses, who died on March 26, 2018, was not on the official 1967 roster but spent September with the team, and the 1967 Red Sox players of record considered him to be a 1967 teammate. Since there were 39 players who are included on the 1967 Roster for the season, 20 members of the Impossible Dream team survive. The passing of outfielder Don Demeter on Novembrought the number of players we have lost to nineteen. Too many players from the 1967 Red Sox have died at too young an age. ![]()
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