Dick Radatz
Sad to see him go, one of the most colorful and true Red Sox ever, and the only pitcher who Mickey Mantle feared. In nineteen plate appearances, Mantle got 3 hits, 3 walks and struck out 13 times. But to his last days Radatz claimed he struck out Mantle over 40 times in over 60 plate appearances. I can forgive him.
Dick Radatz, whose towering presence and 95-mile-per-hour fastball made him baseball's most dominant relief pitcher in the mid-1960s and earned him the unforgettable nickname of "The Monster" in Red Sox lore, died yesterday when he fell down a flight of stairs in his home in Easton, according to police.
