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Article: MORGAN'S MOVE ENRAGES RICE
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- July 21, 1988
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Q. Is Jim Rice still the captain of the Red Sox?
A. "Yes, as far as I know he is. No one has taken that away
from him."
-- Joe Morgan, Red Sox manager
Where, then, was Jim Rice last night during the Red Sox'
proudest moment of the season?
With Todd Benzinger cantering down the third-base line, his
10th-inning home run neatly deposited into the right-field
grandstand for a 9-7 victory over the Twins, the team captain was
nowhere to be seen. Where was he?
"I don't know where he was," said Morgan, who in the eighth
inning pinch hit Spike Owen for Rice -- a move that one player
claims so enraged Rice that he pulled the manager down into the
runway that leads to the Red Sox ...