Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Ruth originally entered the major leagues with the Boston Red Sox as a starting pitcher, but after he was sold to the New York Yankees in 1919, he converted to a full-time right fielder.

On May 6, the Orioles played a 17-inning game against the Boston Red Sox, the first game since 1925 in which both teams used a position player as a pitcher.

After one-hitting Boston on May 2, 1904, Philadelphia Athletics pitcher Rube Waddell taunted Young to face him so that he could repeat his performance against Boston's ace.

Cy Young is tied with Roger Clemens for the most career wins by a Boston Red Sox pitcher.

When pitcher Roger Clemens arrived in Boston for the first time in 1984, he took a taxi from Logan Airport and was sure the driver had misunderstood his directions when he announced their arrival at the park.

In the game A. G. Spalding was pitcher and Ross Barnes shortstop for the Forest City nine ; these two afterwards becoming famous as star players of the Boston professional team of the early seventies.

* 1917 – In a game against the Washington Senators, Boston Red Sox pitcher Ernie Shore retires 26 batters in a row after replacing Babe Ruth, who had been ejected for punching the umpire.

Approaching free agency, Martínez was traded to the Boston Red Sox in November 1997 for Carl Pavano and Tony Armas, Jr., and was soon signed to a six-year, $ 75, 000, 000 contract ( with an option for a seventh at $ 17 million ) by Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette, at the time the largest ever awarded to a pitcher.

On December 6, 2010, Gonzalez was traded to the Boston Red Sox for a package of right-handed pitcher Casey Kelly, first baseman Anthony Rizzo, outfielder Reymond Fuentes, and a player to be named later, later determined to be Eric Patterson.

* Lefty Grove ( 1900 – 1975 ), born and raised in Lonaconing ; Hall of Fame baseball pitcher with the Philadelphia Athletics and Boston Red Sox.

The A's won the Division again in 1975, but the loss of pitcher Catfish Hunter, baseball's first modern free agent, left them vulnerable, and they were swept in the ALCS by the Boston Red Sox.

When Boston lost a number of games due to bullpen failures, Little reverted to a traditional closer approach and moved Byung-Hyun Kim from being a starting pitcher to a closer.

* Jonathan Papelbon, closing pitcher for the Boston Red Sox.

On July 9, 1972, Ryan struck out three batters on nine pitches in the second inning of a 3 – 0 win over the Boston Red Sox ; he became the seventh American League pitcher to accomplish the nine-pitch / three-strikeout half-inning, and the first ( and currently only ) pitcher in Major League history to accomplish the feat in both leagues.

McFarlane and Boston Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling formed the gaming studio 38 Studios ( formerly Green Monster Games ), in order to produce role-playing games, with McFarlane overseeing art direction.

* Tex Clevenger-Fresno State and Major League Baseball pitcher ( Boston Red Sox, Washington Senators, Los Angeles Angels, and New York Yankees )

* Red Ruffing, Hall-of-Fame pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, New York Yankees, and Chicago White Sox ; born in Granville

* Al Papai, MLB pitcher for the St. Louis Cardinals, St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox

* Jonathan Papelbon, pitcher for the Boston Red Sox from 2005-2011 and the Philadelphia Phillies from 2012 -

He was a pitcher for the Minnesota Twins, Cleveland Indians, and the Boston Red Sox during the early 1960s.

* Bob Smith, pitcher with the Boston Red Sox, St. Louis Cardinals, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Detroit Tigers

* Jerry Casale ( born 1933 ), former Major League Baseball starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox, Los Angeles Angels and Detroit Tigers.

* Dan Smith ( born 1975 ), former MLB pitcher who played for the Montreal Expos and Boston Red Sox.

Buck was soon replaced by Boston Red Sox announcer Sean McDonough.

Its unincorporated communities include Bear Run, Boston Run, Bowmans, Buck Mountain, Craigs, Ellen Gowen, Hills Terrace, Maple Hill, New Boston-Morea, Park Place, St. Nicholas, Shoemakers, and Vulcan.

Buck used his ships to transport lumber to Georgetown and Charleston in South Carolina and as far away as New York City and Boston, and even to other countries.

He received the Boston Film Critics Award, an American Comedy Award, a Sierra Award and a tribute from AFI for his portrayal as Buck Laughlin in Best in Show.

In the bottom of the 11th inning of Game 7 of the 2003 American League Championship Series, Aaron Boone famously hit Tim Wakefield's first pitch over the left field wall as Buck exclaimed, " The Boston Red Sox, and fans from New England, will tell you that they were five outs away, leading by three — as Boone hits it to deep left.

Buck O ' Brien started this game over Red Sox ace Wood at the insistence of Red Sox owner Jimmy McAleer, over the protests of Boston manager Stahl.

* In the book Faithful by Steward O ' Nan and Stephen King, describing the 2004 season of the Boston Red Sox, there is a chapter contributed by King, named " The Gloom is gone from Mudville ".

Among the more than two dozen exhibitors who attended the first meeting held in New York on April 25, 1917, were Frederick Dahnken of the Turner and Dahnken Circuit in San Francisco, Harry O. Schwalbe of Philadelphia, Samuel Roxy Rothafel of New York, Earl H. Hulsey of Dallas and Nathan H. Gordon of Boston.

* 1958 – Willie O ' Ree, the first African Canadian National Hockey League player, makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

Paramount management planned to acquire additional owned-and-operated stations (" O & Os "); the company applied to the FCC for additional stations in San Francisco, Detroit, and Boston.

In 2004, King co-wrote a book titled Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season with Stewart O ' Nan, recounting the authors ' roller coaster reaction to the Red Sox's 2004 season, a season culminating in the Sox winning the 2004 American League Championship Series and World Series.

* July 13 – Hugh O ' Brien, Mayor of Boston ( d. 1895 )

" Shaun O ' Connell in the New Boston Review notes that " those who see Seamus Heaney as a symbol of hope in a troubled land are not, of course, wrong to do so, though they may be missing much of the undercutting complexities of his poetry, the backwash of ironies which make him as bleak as he is bright.

" O ' Connell notes in his Boston Review critique of Station Island: " Again and again Heaney pulls back from political purposes ; despite its emblems of savagery, Station Island lends no rhetorical comfort to Republicanism.

They later merged into the Soliantu tribe ( a word created by competitors Kathy-Vavrick O ' Brien and Rob " Boston Rob " Mariano which they intended to mean " Sacred Allegiance to the Sun.

He formerly had been the long term doctor for Eugene O ' Neill and evaluated the confessed Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, a case defended in 1967 by Bailey.

American Defenders of New Hampshire, LLC consisted of Nokona executives Buddy Lewis and Jerry O ' Connor, former Boston Red Sox general manager Dan Duquette, and Terry Allvord.

The season was marked by major trades and acquisitions by many teams, most notably Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen being acquired by the Boston Celtics, Pau Gasol going to the Los Angeles Lakers, and Shaquille O ' Neal going to the Phoenix Suns.

* Woodbury, David O. Elihu Thomson, Beloved Scientist ( Boston: Museum of Science, 1944 )

Beginning in 1972 a station in the Kaiser Broadcasting ( later Field Communications ) chain, WKBG ( Channel 56 ; WLVI after the Boston Globe sold their share back to Kaiser in 1975 ) aired its collection of Godzilla movies-one per week at 4 pm on Saturday under the title, The 4 O ' Clock Movie.

20-year-old Will Hunting ( Matt Damon ) of South Boston has a genius-level intellect but chooses to work as a janitor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and spend his free time with his friends Chuckie Sullivan ( Ben Affleck ), Billy McBride ( Cole Hauser ) and Morgan O ' Mally ( Casey Affleck ).

In 2007, Geraldo was involved in a dispute with fellow fox colleague Michelle Malkin, Malkin announced that she would not return to The O ' Reilly Factor, claiming that Fox News had mishandled a dispute over derogatory statements made about her by Geraldo in a Boston Globe interview.

“ A series of online professional development courses that focus on specific content and target student learning needs can have positive effects on teacher knowledge and instructional practices ,” said Boston College Associate Professor of Education Laura O ’ Dwyer.

* Former NBA player Shaquille O ' Neal nicknamed himself the " Big Shamrock " after joining the Boston Celtics.

Other notable roles include Mary Elizabeth ( O ' Brien ) Sims on the Lifetime Television drama series Any Day Now ( 1998 – 2002 ), for which she was nominated for two Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series, the voice of Little Bo Peep in the first two Toy Story films, a supporting role in the John Hughes's Pretty in Pink as well as guest-starring roles on such CBS's television series as Magnum, P. I., Joan of Arcadia, Close to Home, Two and a Half Men and ABC ' Men in Trees, Ugly Betty and Boston Legal.

He first rose to prominence during his career at Boston College, where he received the prestigious Heisman Trophy and the Davey O ' Brien National Quarterback Award in 1984.

Flutie played football for Boston College, the only Division I-A school to recruit him, from 1981 to 1984, and won the Heisman Trophy, Maxwell Award, and the Davey O ' Brien National Quarterback Award in his senior year ( 1984 ).

The American Ireland Fund, now the central entity in the The Ireland Funds, was established in Boston by O ' Reilly and his friend, Pittsburgh businessman Dan Rooney, in 1976, and for many years this and later similar initiatives in other countries, took up a considerable amount of his time.

* Stewart O ' Nan and Stephen King's book Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season.

* January 18-Willie O ' Ree makes his NHL debut with the Boston Bruins.

Of the new recruits, Bristow, Owen, and Miller were still in the line-up, and Mulligan added another new man in end Grattan O ' Connell, a Bristol, Connecticut, native who had just finished his senior season at Boston College and turned pro immediately.