AT-AT, Part II
I am abashed. I missed three players for the Massachusetts town name team: Garry Hancock, Fred Hatfield, and Al Worthington. I have amended the list and made amends by taking on a task no reasonable person would consider undertaking.
How did I discover the missing three players, you may ask? Okay, you’re not actually asking yourself that, but I’ll pretend that you did anyway. Love for the Red Sox is not limited to Massachusetts, I realized, and decided to expand the team into the entire New England region (even those poor Yankee-deluded fools in the nether regions of Connecticut).
I didn’t realize how utterly insane this project would be until I found out that tiny New Hampshire has over 250 towns and an additional 20 or so “unincorporated places.” In comparison, Massachusetts, with six times the population, has 351. Maine’s municipality count weighs in at just over 500, is 35,384 square miles, dwarfing Rhode island’s 40 towns and 1,545 square miles.
Who needs to follow the hot stove shenanigans and GM-hiring hijinks? Relive Red Sox history and explore the quaint boroughs and hamlets of our region all in one table.
| Player | Position(s) | Years with Red Sox | Corresponding Town |
| Adams, Bob Adams, Terry |
RHP RHP |
1925 2004 |
Adams, MA |
| Alexander, Dale Alexander, Manny |
1B IF |
1932-33 2000 |
Alexander, ME |
| Beckett, Josh | RHP | 2006-? | Becket, MA |
| Benton, Al* | RHP | 1952 | Benton, ME and NH |
| Bolton, Tom | LHP | 1987-92 | Bolton, CT and MA |
| Bradford, Chad | RHP | 2005 | Bradford, NH |
| Bradley, Herb Bradley, Hugh |
RHP 1B/OF |
1927-29 1910-12 |
Bradley, ME |
| Brandon, Darrell | RHP | 1966-68 | Brandon, VT |
| Brewer, Tom | RHP | 1954-61 | Bradley, ME |
| Carroll, Ed | RHP | 1929 | Carroll, ME and NH |
| Chaplin, Ed | C | 1920-22 | Chaplin, CT |
| Chapman, Ben* | IF/OF/RHP | 1937-38 | Bradley, ME |
| Clinton, Lou | OF | 1960-64 | Clinton, CT, ME, and MA |
| Cooper, Cecil* Cooper, Guy Cooper, Scott* |
1B/DH RHP IF/DH |
1971-76 1914-15 1990-94 |
Cooper, ME |
| Crawford, Steve | RHP | 1980-82, 84-87 | Crawford, ME |
| Durham, Ed | RHP | 1929-32 | Durham, CT and NH |
| Ellsworth, Dick* Ellsworth, Steve |
LHP RHP |
1968-69 1988 |
Ellsworth, ME and NH |
| Everett, Carl* | OF/DH | 2000-01 | Everett, MA |
| Foster, Eddie Foster, Rube |
3B RHP |
1920-22 1913-17 |
Foster, RI |
| Gardiner, Mike | RHP | 1991-92 | Gardiner, ME |
| Gardner, Billy Gardner, Larry Gardner, Wes |
2B/3B/SS 3B RHP |
1962-63 1908-17 1986-90 |
Gardner, MA |
| Gray, Dave Gray, Jeff |
RHP RHP |
1964 1990-91 |
Gray, ME |
| Hammond, Chris | LHP | 1997 | Hammond, ME |
| Hancock, Garry Hancock, Josh |
RHP RHP |
1978, 80-82 2002 |
Hancock, ME, MA, and NH |
| Hansen, Craig Hanson, Erik* |
RHP RHP |
2005 1995 |
Hanson, MA |
| Hatfield, Fred | 3B | 1950-52 | Hatfield, MA |
| Hudson, Joe Hudson, Sid* |
RHP RHP |
1995-97 1952-54 |
Hudson, ME, MA, and NH |
| Jackson, Damian Jackson, Ron |
IF/OF 1B |
2003 1960 |
Jackson, ME and NH |
| Jefferson, Reggie | DH | 1995-99 | Jefferson, ME and NH |
| Johnson, Adam Johnson, Bob* Johnson, Deron Johnson, Earl Johnson, Hank Johnson, John Henry Johnson, Roy Johnson, Vic |
RHP OF 1B LHP RHP LHP OF LHP |
1914 1944-45 1974-76 40-41, 46-50 1933-35 1983-84 1932-35 1944-45 |
Johnson, VT |
| Johnston, Joel | RHP | 1995 | Johnston, RI |
| Lee, Bill* Lee, Dud |
LHP SS/2B |
1969-78 1924-26 |
Lee, ME, MA, and NH |
| Lowell, Mike* | 3B | 2006-? | Lowell, ME, MA, and VT |
| Lynn, Fred* | OF | 1974-80 | Lynn, MA |
| Maynard, Chick | SS | 1922 | Maynard, MA |
| Meredith, Cla | RHP | 2005-? | Meredith, NH |
| Montgomery, Bob | C/DH | 1970-79 | Montgomery, MA and VT |
| Morris, Ed | RHP | 1928-31 | Morris, CT |
| Nelson, Bryant Nelson, Joe |
IF/OF RHP |
2002 2004 |
Nelson, NH |
| Patten, Casey | LHP | 1908 | Patten, ME |
| Paxton, Mike | RHP | 1977 | Paxton, MA |
| Phillips, Ed | RHP | 1970 | Phillips, ME |
| Plympton, Jeff | RHP | 1991 | Plympton, MA |
| Porter, Dick | OF | 1934 | Porter, ME |
| Reed, Jerry Reed, Jody |
RHP 2B |
1990 1987-92 |
Reed, ME |
| Ripley, Allen Ripley, Walt |
RHP RHP |
1978-79 1935 |
Ripley, ME |
| Russell, Allan Russell, Jack* Russell, Jeff* Russell, Rip |
RHP RHP RHP 1B/IF |
1919-22 1926-32, 36 1993-94 1946-47 |
Russell, MA |
| Rye, Gene | OF | 1931 | Rye, NH |
| Scarborough, Ray* | RHP | 1951 | Scarborough, ME |
| Spencer, Tubby | C | 1909 | Spencer, MA |
| Sprague, Ed* | 3B | 2000 | Sprague, CT |
| Sullivan, Denny Sullivan, Frank* Sullivan, Haywood Sullivan, Marc |
OF RHP C C |
1907-08 1953-60 1955, 57, 59-60 1982, 84-87 |
Sullivan, ME and NH |
| Vernon, Mickey* | 1B | 1956-57 | Vernon, CT |
| Wade, Jake | LHP | 1939 | Wade, ME |
| Wakefield, Tim | RHP | 1995-? | Wakefield, MA, NH, and RI |
| Warner, John | C | 1902 | Warner, ME |
| Webster, Lenny Webster, Ray |
C 2B |
1999 1960 |
Webster, ME, MA, and NH |
| Winn, George | LHP | 1919 | Winn, ME |
| Wolcott, Bob | RHP | 1999 | Wolcott, CT |
| Worthington, Al | RHP | 1960 | Worthington, MA |
| York, Rudy* | 1B | 1946-47 | York, ME |
| *All Star |
For something funny, see what the sponsor of Dick Porter says.
Comments
For the record, there is also a Wakefield in RI. I should know, I live like a stone's throw away
Piney ∙ 30 November 2005 ∙ 6:20 PM
For the town listings, I used the respective state's official website. Rhode Island's didn't list the Wakefield near you, but I'll update the table. Thanks for the info.
Empyreal ∙ 30 November 2005 ∙ 7:21 PM
Why not list Marblehead,MA for Grady Little?
pvt pyle ∙ 1 December 2005 ∙ 7:17 AM
Don't forget Bolton, CT.
Great job with this, by the way. Except for calling Connecticut people fools:)
jere ∙ 1 December 2005 ∙ 3:52 PM
Also, Grove, Maine. Right near Alexander and Cooper, actually. It shows up on google maps.
jere ∙ 1 December 2005 ∙ 4:01 PM
Comstock, Maine. Ralph Comstock, 1915. I don't know how legit these towns are, though. It's your call.
Mt. Washington State Park is supposedly in Crawford, NH, but that town doesn't show up on any list of NH towns.
Update: I called Mt Washington SP, and the dude, Mike, said that Crawford's Notch is a "place name," not a town, and there's no "Crawford, NH." Either way, Steve Crawford makes the team for Crawford, ME.
All right, I have to stop this.
jere ∙ 1 December 2005 ∙ 4:35 PM
Well in a sense, it's not an actual town, it's kinda like how Boston has different parts of it...same rings true with South Kingstown, which Wakefield is a part of. There's many others like Kingston, Saunderstown(actually that's three towns that share that whole village/neighborhood thingie), West Kingston, etc.
Piney ∙ 1 December 2005 ∙ 4:48 PM
Jere, thanks for calling that guy at Mt. Washington State Park. Did you explain to Mike what you were doing? I'll look into those other towns you listed, too. And I wasn't calling all Connecticut people fools, only those that are in Yankee territory and cheer for that other team.
So, what Piney seems to be saying is that Wakefield in Rhode Island is sort of like Jamaica Plain in Boston.
For the fine folks sharing in my obsession, I'm in the process of making a Frappr map of the ATAT Team. Disappointingly, some towns that have their own zip codes don't have their own post offices, so the wrong town name appears on the map. But, rest assured, your crack team of researchers (NU50 and me) checked each and every town's zip code.
Empyreal ∙ 1 December 2005 ∙ 5:14 PM
So, as for Comstock and Grove: neither appeared on the Maine website under the listings of cities, towns, and villages. They also don't have their own zip codes. I'm sure they are real places, but they are not chartered localities.
Wakefield, Rhode Island does have its own zip code, which surprised me.
Empyreal ∙ 1 December 2005 ∙ 11:25 PM
This is a truly remarkable piece of completely useless research that I am pleased to have been a small part of. Well freakin' done.
Andrew ∙ 2 December 2005 ∙ 2:05 PM
Thanks, Andrew, and thanks for sparking my imagination. Perhaps I should submit it to the Annals of Improbable Research so they can reject me like McSweeney's did.
Empyreal ∙ 2 December 2005 ∙ 7:03 PM