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Article: CORSI HEADED FOR EXTRA INNINGS ON NESN
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 27, 2002
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Jim Corsi's stomach burned and his eyes welled up as he sat in a
private box high above Fenway Park two months ago, in his new role as
Red Sox television pregame and postgame show analyst on the New
England Sports Network.
It wasn't easy for the 40-year-old Newton native to put his
playing days behind him - not after two decades of professional
baseball that included three seasons with the Red Sox and a World
Series ring with the Oakland Athletics.
Corsi talked about those emotions with Yankees manager Joe Torre
at Fenway a few days later.
"He said to me, `Cors, you've got to realize how young you are.
When you have that uniform on at age 39 or 40, you're old. But when
you put on that ...