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Article: Corsi's day isn't exactly perfect . . .
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- April 12, 1997
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It took 11 seasons for Newton native Jim Corsi to return to the Red
Sox organization -- the one that released him in 1986.
The return was official yesterday when Corsi, before just over a
dozen family members and friends in the stands, took the mound in the
seventh inning of the home opener at Fenway Park in relief of Steve
Avery with the Sox trailing, 3-2.
It was Corsi's boyhood dream to pitch for the Red Sox, but it was
the Yankees who drafted him in 1982 when he was three years out of
Newton North High.
His dream was finally realized -- but there was a nightmarish
tinge to it yesterday. Corsi was touched for a run and two hits in
two-thirds of an inning as Seattle pushed across its ...