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Tom Yawkey

Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
It is a popular game in North America, parts of Latin America, the Caribbean and East Asia. The modern game initially developed in the United States from an early bat-and-ball game called rounders, and now it has become the national sport of United States.

Tom Yawkey was born on February 21, 1903, in Detroit, Michigan and Died onJuly 9, 1976, in Boston, Massachusetts. Owner and sportsman Tom Yawkey purchased the struggling Boston Red Sox in 1933 and dedicated his time and finances for the next 44 years to building winning teams. His teams' best seasons occurred in 1946, '67 and '75 when the Red Sox captured the American League pennant, and then went on to lose each World Series in seven games. Yawkey spent 44 years as the sole owner of the Boston Red Sox, often spending lavishly in pursuit of a winner.

Yawkey quickly hired an astute baseball man in Eddie Collins and spent another 1.5 million dollars to refurbish Fenway Park. With Collins supplying the know-how and Yawkey the money, the Red Sox brought future Hall of Famers Rick Ferrell, Joe Cronin, Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx, Bobby Doerr, and Ted Williams to Boston. Yawkey never lost his willingness to open his coffers for proven players or to pay his players handsomely even before it was normal to do so.

Yawkey took great pride in becoming a pillar in the baseball world. Yet he was not active in social circles, and was more at ease in his baseball togs, working out on the Fenway diamond. Respected for the sound baseball advice he gave to other owners, Yawkey was named to the Hall of Fame by the Committee on Baseball Veterans in 1980, four years after his death. He left the Red Sox to be operated by his widow, Jean Yawkey.

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