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Article: UNDER JOHN MCNAMARA, HE WAS A FORGOTTEN UNDERSTUDY, PLAYING SPARINGLY. UNDER JOE MORGAN, HE HAS BEEN MOVED TO CENTER STAGE AS THE RED SOX HAVE MOVED INTO CONTENTION. THE MANAGERIAL CHANGE HAS LAUNCHED . . .BENZINGER'S HIT REVIVAL
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- August 2, 1988
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He thinks back now to a time not long ago, a time when he
and Jody Reed were shagging flies in the outfield and being asked
to do little more. It used to be that way for Todd Benzinger. His
life with the Red Sox was show up, suit up and, for the most part,
shut up.
"We'd be out there," Benzinger recalled, "and we'd both say to
each other, 'What are we doing here?' We didn't know what we were
doing, where we were going."
That was then, when the Red Sox were still under the losing
thumb of John McNamara and Boston's chances of making a run in the
American League East were about the same as George Scott trotting
26 miles from Hopkinton. Today, with Joe Morgan in charge, the Sox
have ...