John Blake, Red Sox Vice President in charge of Media Relations, announced yesterday that he was moving back to work for the Texas Rangers.  He had been in Boston since 2006 and will now take the helm in Texas as the team vice president in charge of communications.  In this role, he will oversee player-media relations, as well as relations with broadcasting and the press.  He had previously worked with Texas from 1984 to 2004 and appears to have liked it enough to go back.  He has been well regarded in Boston during his tenure and is widely expected to do very well in his new position.  We wish him the very best!

The Red Sox veteran pitcher Tim Wakefield has been complaining of a slight stiffness in his right shoulder for some time now and the Red Sox management has decided to send their starter pitcher to the disabled list in order to further diagnose the problem. He was expected to be the starting pitcher for the red Sox team for the Tuesday’s game against the Rangers. The Red Sox camp is hoping that this injury to Tim Wakefield will not keep him out of action for too long and expects him to be in the thick of things after two games. The Red Sox fans can buy the tickets to the baseball games through various online ticketing sites as well as at the games venues.

A rookie ML manager named Dick Williams reported to Spring Training in 1967, immediately developed a no-nonsense approach and turned a last-place team from the previous season into the AL champions. In fact, it remains one of the greatest turnarounds in Major League Baseball history. Williams’ 1967 club is regarded as the most improbable Red Sox playoff team in the history of the club. After winning just seventy games the year before, Williams predicted they would win more than they had lost.

The Boston Red Sox is a notable baseball team. Apart from their previous stunning playing the team has showed distinguished records over the recent years. They have set an overall season winning percentage of .513, a record of 8497-7960 since their foundation in 1901.This year its players Manny Ramirez, J.D. Drew, Mike Lowell, and Jason Varitek set a team history record of hitting four runs in succession. By the way, this fall the Boston Red Sox defeated the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and thus managed to seed for the postseason games for the forth time during the last five years. The team is still improvong and striving for the better results.

The name Red Sox was given to the team after the 1907 season and described the red hose in the team uniform. It was believed that “sox” is a shorter form of stockings, which was more headline-friendly as taking less space in newspapers and better fitting on a page. The name actually derives from the Cincinnati Red Stockings – a team, which was managed by Harry Wright – the same person, who later organized a new hockey team in Boston. In fact, the Cincinnati Red Stockings had a very special uniform: white knickers and red stockings, to which they owe their famous nickname. When later on Wright was hired to found a new team in Boston, he brought three teammates and the “Red Stockings” nickname along. That is how the nick was created – thanks to the team’s first manager. We should say that this nickname brought luck to the Boston Red Sox, because it won four championships in the five seasons of the new National Association, the first professional league. By the way, The Red Sox are one of two teams in the American League with Sox in their name. The other one is the Chicago White Sox