Dick Radatz "The Monster" dies at 67. Former Red Sox Closer.

http://www.sportsline.com/mlb/story/8302009
Still holds the record for Stikeouts in a season for a reliver at 181.
He was the only bright spot on some pathetic Sox teams during the early and mid 60's.

His demise came via booze. He drank so heavily that in spite of being overpowering, the Sox traded him away because he would show up at games drunk or still drunk from the night before.
What coulda been if was sober....

I am not a sox fan but I do know the history of the 1975 world series, I wondered what it would been like if Jim Rice had been there.

He and Fred Lynn were tabbed as the "Gold Dust Twins" that year. What a season! I was 19 and loving life. Game 6 of that World Series is still the best game ver IMO.I watched parts of game 2 from a billboard across the street from the Green Monster on Landsdowne St. The Cops made us climb down twice and threatened to lock us up if we went up there again.

He broke his arm in September, and never appeared in the ALCS.

If you know the history of the Sox, you know that they had a habit of making WS appearances with one crucial member of their team out for the year. In '67, it was Tony Conigliaro. In '75, Rice. In '86, Tom Seaver, who, while the fourth starter on that team, would have been a psychological weapon starting against his ex-team...and, the way the pitching got used up by the end of that series, could have made the difference.

All the more reason why last year, when Schilling went down after the first game of the ALCS, my reaction was "Oh, s***...not again!" Luckily, Schilling was able to gut it out, with the only permanent damage being to that part of the brain that processes politics. ;-)