List of Boston Red Sox captains

Jason Varitek, retired Red Sox captain, with the captain insignia on his chest.

Eighteen different players have been full-time captains of the Boston Red Sox, an American professional baseball franchise also known previously as the Boston Americans. The list was created from scratch by baseball historian Howard W. Rosenberg in 2004. The Red Sox front office contacted Rosenberg in advance of Jason Varitek being named captain that year, after learning that Rosenberg, author of a 2003 book featuring captains in 19th-century baseball, had disputed the official count of captains in New York Yankees franchise history.[1][2]

In Major League Baseball, a captain is an honorary title given to the member of the team primarily responsible for strategy and teamwork while the game is in progress on the field. This role has been particularly important during eras and situations in which managers and coaches have been precluded by the rules from interacting with players on the field while the game is in progress.[3] As is the case with the National Hockey League, then- and now-retired captain Varitek wore a distinctive "C" on the left side of his jersey.[3]

Captains

Carl Yastrzemski at-bat in Tiger Stadium, Detroit, Michigan, 1983
Elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame
Player Position Years active Years as captain Reference
Boston Americans (until 1907)
Jimmy Collins 3B 18951908 19011905

[4]

Chick Stahl OF 18971906 1906

[5]

Bob Unglaub 1B 19041910 1907

[6]

Boston Red Sox (1907 to present)
Deacon McGuire C 18841912 1908

[7]

Doc Gessler RF 19031911 1909

[8]

Harry Lord 3B 19031911 1910

[6]

Heinie Wagner SS 19021918 1911

[9]

Jake Stahl 1B 19031912 1912
Heinie Wagner SS 19021918 19131914

[9]

Jack Barry 2B 19081919 19151917
Dick Hoblitzell 1B 19081918 1918

[6]

Harry Hooper OF 19081925 19191920

[6]

Everett Scott SS 19141926 1921
Del Pratt 2B 19141926 1922

[6]

George Burns 1B 19141929 1923
Mike Menosky LF 19141923 1923[a]

No captain 19241939[6]

Jimmie Foxx 1B 19251945 19401942

No captain 19431965[6]

Carl Yastrzemski OF 19611983 1966

No captain 19671968[6]

Carl Yastrzemski OF 19611983 19691983

No captain 1984[6]

Jim Rice OF 19741989 19851989

[6]

No captain 19902004[6]

Jason Varitek C 19972011 20052011
Source:[6]

See also

Footnotes

References

  1. Mallozzi, Vincent. "Author Says Yankees Are Missing Something". The New York Times. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
  2. Heuschkel, David. "It's Now Captain Varitek". The Hartford Courant. Retrieved 2014-10-24.
  3. 1 2 Hoch, Bryan. "Trio of captains treasure role". MLB.com. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  4. Abrams, Rodger (February 15, 2007). "Jimmy Collins: Pride of the Irish". National Baseball Hall of Fame. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  5. "The Boston Pilgrims". Celebrate Boston. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 unknown; Glen Stout; Richard Johnson (2000). Red Sox Century: The Definitive History of Baseball's Most Storied Franchise. Houghton Mifflin Books. ISBN 0-618-42319-2.
  7. Flietz, David (2008). Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson. McFarland & Company. ISBN 0-7864-3312-4.
  8. "Gessler to be Captain of Red Sox". The New York Times. January 19, 1909. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  9. 1 2 Lieb, Frederick G. and McNally, John The Boston Red Sox. Southern Illinois University Press. 2003. ISBN 0-8093-2493-8. line feed character in |publisher= at position 18 (help)
  10. Richardson, Bob (March 23, 2008). "Visionary views: Several innovators get credit for the evolution of managing". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  11. "Jack Barry Laid Up". The New York Times. September 26, 1915. Retrieved 2008-06-04.
  12. 1 2 Wood, Allan (2000). Babe Ruth and the 1918 Red Sox. iUniverse. ISBN 0-595-14826-3.
  13. unknown; David S. Neft; Michael L. Neft; Bob Carroll; Richard M. Cohen (2005). The Boston Red Sox Fan Book. Macmillan. ISBN 0-312-34849-5.
  14. Daniel, W. Harrison (2004). Jimmie Foxx: The Life and Times of a Baseball Hall of Famer. McFarland. ISBN 0-7864-1867-2.
  15. 1 2 McBroom, Kathleen (1981). The Lincoln Library of Sports Champions. Frontier Press Co. ISBN 0-912168-07-2.
  16. Edes, Gordon (December 24, 2004). "Sox re-sign Varitek, name him captain". The Boston Globe. Retrieved 2008-06-04.

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