Red Sox Players With Massachusetts City/Town Names

This is the list I have been able to come up with. I used 2 sources of information,  Baseball Reference’s list of all Red Sox players (batting and pitching), and Wikipedia’s list of all Municipalities in Massachusetts. I took all that data and cross referenced it through excel, and then removed duplicates to come up with the 35 players below. Then in 2022, Ken let me know about James Norwood. Thanks Ken!

There are also several guys who played who had names similar, but are spelled slightly differently. Examples of this are Barr/Barre or Hansen/Hanson, Lester/Leicester or Beckett/Becket. Those are not included here because they don’t directly match.

I think the most common and popular ones known to the majority of all current Red Sox fans are Bill Lee, Carl Everett, Tim Wakefield, Mike Lowell and Fred Lynn.

Bob Adams 1925 1925
Terry Adams 2004 2004
Tom Bolton 1987 1992
Walter Carlisle 1908 1908
Lou Clinton 1960 1964
Carl Everett 2000 2001
Billy Gardner 1962 1963
Larry Gardner 1908 1917
Wes Gardner 1986 1990
Garry Hancock 1978 1982
Josh Hancock 2002 2002
Erik Hanson 1995 1995
Fred Hatfield 1950 1952
Joe Hudson 1995 1997
Sid Hudson 1952 1954
Bill Lee 1969 1978
Dud Lee 1924 1926
Sang-Hoon Lee 2000 2000
Mike Lowell 2006 2009
Fred Lynn 1974 1980
Chick Maynard 1922 1922
Bob Montgomery 1970 1979
James Norwood 2022 2022
Mike Paxton 1977 1977
Jeff Plympton 1991 1991
Allen Russell 1919 1922
Jack Russell 1926 1936
Jeff Russell 1993 1994
Rip Russell 1946 1947
Tubby Spencer 1909 1909
Drew Sutton 2011 2011
Tim Wakefield 1995 2008
Allen Webster 2013 2013
Lenny Webster 1999 1999
Ray Webster 1960 1960
Al Worthington 1960 1960

Also, I have noticed that I ton of traffic comes through to this page, please leave a comment and let me know you were here and where/how you found your way here. I am curious person so I am curious what brings visitors!

  1. #1 by Gregory Matthews on 2020/11/24 - 10:56 AM

    Josh Beckett!

    I’d even count Jon Lester!

  2. #2 by Ken Parker on 2022/06/19 - 10:51 AM

    The Red Sox just acquired a pitcher named James Norwood from the Phillies: https://www.boston.com/sports/boston-red-sox/2022/06/18/red-sox-acquire-reliever-james-norwood-phillies-trade-cash/?p1=hp_featurestack

    Add one more to the list!

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