RIP Norm Siebern

[jacklamabe65]

 On the Impossible Dream Red Sox of 1967, where he served as an able pinch hitter and utility man. I can still hear Ned Martin bellow, "Norm Siebern - wastes no time as he raps a two-run single between first and second, driving Petrocelli with the go-ahead run!"
 
God, I loved that team.
 
Norm Siebern, the player, died at 82 yesterday.

 

[DJnVa]

Not the poster?

 

[bankshot1]

Norm, the player, was one of the players that netted Roger Maris for the MFY
 
RIP

 

[fenwaypaul]

I loved that team, too. I never got around to posting in the "favorite season" thread, but for me nothing could top 1967. Certainly 2004 had a better ending, but if you weren't here during the summer of '67, no one can explain the magic to you.
 

 
Edit 1: punctuation.
Edit 2: attribution. Photo scanned from The 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox, edited by Bill Nowlin and Dan Desrochers (Rounder Books, 2007). No credit shown, but presumably taken by a Boston Herald staffer.

 

[gryoung]

Well said Fenway Paul. I second your comment.

 

[RoDaddy]

Yes, that team was right up there with the most memorable teams in Boston sports history!  
 
RIP Norm - we all remember your bases clearing triple that year that I believe was included on the Impossible Dream record that all young Red Sox fans should be required to listen to as a rite of Red Sox nation passage:
 
http://www.fleetwoodsounds.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=33

 

[Al Zarilla]

I loved that team, too. I never got around to posting in the "favorite season" thread, but for me nothing could top 1967. Certainly 2004 had a better ending, but if you weren't here during the summer of '67, no one can explain the magic to you.
 

Yes, that team was right up there with the most memorable teams in Boston sports history!  
 
RIP Norm - we all remember your bases clearing triple that year that I believe was included on the Impossible Dream record that all young Red Sox fans should be required to listen to as a rite of Red Sox nation passage:
 
http://www.fleetwoodsounds.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=33

 

Absolutely a fun team in 1967 and one that came out of nowhere, mostly, like the 2013 team. I don't remember Siebern so much as I do another off the bench guy that had some memorable games, Jerry Adair. RIP, Norm, Jerry too.

 

[Joe Shlabotnick]

Well said Fenway Paul. I second your comment.

 
I agree as well. I was 12 years old and in my second season of following the Sox. I remember walking around all summer with a transistor radio glued to my ear listening to the games. During the World Series, I walked around junior high school with a transistor radio in my pocket and the earphone wire running inside my shirt to my ear listening to the games when I could. The teachers probably knew, but nobody said anything.

 

[cptcarl]

" ...it's going up the alley, rolling to the bullpen wall..."