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Projo Sox Blog found this 5/16/2008 on www.boston.com [flag]
Red Sox Hall of Famer Bill Monbouquette has always been accustomed to being challenged. He won 20 games in 1963, pitching on a seventh-place ball club. He pitched a no-hitter. He was named to four All-Star teams. And he once physically threatened a young Carl Yastrzemski, who he thought wasn't hustling. [link]

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Baseball Today: Friday, May 16
Published 5/16/2008 by Art Martone (amartone@projo.com) at Projo Sox Blog
... MONBO: The Globe's Stan Grossfeld has a touching piece on ex-Red Sox pitcher Bill Monbouquette -- one of the few beacons of light during the very dark days of the early 1960s -- who's battling leukemia. ...

Globe: Ex-Red Sox Ace Monbouquette Battles Cancer
Published 5/16/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Globe: Ex-Red Sox Ace Monbouquette Battles Cancer Good article about a good player from my hometown. There are so many nuggets I could quote here, but I’ll go with the PSA: Tufts University in Medford is hosting a Donor Drive, sponsored by the Dana-Farber Marrow Donor Program, June 7 in his honor. Participants can take a quick cotton-swab cheek test to see if they are a potential match to any of 6,000 people in need of this lifesaving procedure. Monbouquette says this is not just about him - that the more people who register for the National Bone Marrow Donor Registry, the ...

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