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Article: Jim Rice's quiet competence wrongly taken for sullenness.(News)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- December 28, 2005
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Byline: JOE FITZGERALD
When this column said goodbye to sports a dozen years ago, it did so with the intention of not looking back.
But once in a while there's occasion for remembrance and it happened again yesterday when the Hall of Fame ballot that arrives here every year was returned with a mark next to Jim Rice's name.
There's a file here that overflows with dog-eared notes from a relationship that began with his first appearance in 1974 and ended with his final at-bat in 1989.
That might suggest we were friends. We were not.