Monday, January 14, 2019

#84T - John McNamara


What a card: John McNamara was named the Red Sox's manager mere days after Ralph Houk stepped down from the Red Sox and announced his retirement from managing. McNamara resigned his job as manager of the Angels to take the Red Sox job.

How'd that go: Well, on the good side, his Red Sox faced his old team, the Angels, in the 1986 ALCS and the Red Sox won. On the bad side, McNamara is forever remembered for the things he didn't do in the Red Sox's loss in the World Series that year.


Backatya: Exactly two years after McNamara was named manager of the Red Sox, Boston won Game 1 of the 1986 World Series, 1-0, over the Mets. 


 
Back-to-back: Well that's certainly a difference in demeanor between the two cards.

The flagship card is No. 732 in the set and was originally blogged on Dec. 6, 2017.

The blog wants to speak now: The Ballgames category is updated.

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