Red Sox DVD provides trip down memory lane
The title of this DVD is a bit of a misnomer unless you, like the producers, believe the greatest Red Sox [team stats] memories occurred only in the World Series.
Owing to the lack of film from the team’s most dominant era - from 1903-1918 - the period is given an 18-minute summation via photos and historian accounts. The four World Series appearances that followed during the 86-year drought between the 1918 and 2004 championships similarly get cursory treatment. The rest is devoted to the ’04 and ’07 titles, with which few younger Sox fans would quarrel. But if you own any of the previous Major League Baseball productions on these Series, you’ve seen it.
What saves “Red Sox Memories” is the abundance of era-spanning highlights packaged into two other features, “Characters and Rookies” and “All-Time Team.” The former allows for coverage of marginal talents with larger-than-life personas, a la Dennis “Oil Can” Boyd. The latter ranks the best Red Sox players of all time at each position.
There is little room to argue with the top selections, each of whom is highlighted by a short biographical sketch, highlights and interview clips from teammates or experts. The value is in the video footage of the candidates at each position, with five to six nominations and archival footage of even most of the old-timers, including Jimmie Foxx, Johnny Pesky and Bobby Doerr. Devout fans will love having all of these neatly packaged clips.
The extras include brief TV features on Ted Williams and Dick Radatz, vignettes of Williams’ appearance at the 1999 All-Star Game at Fenway Park [map], Pedro Martinez’s dominating, two-inning stint in that game and Carl Yastrzemski’s Hall of Fame speech.
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