Bill Monbouquette, Former Red Sox Pitcher, Dies at 78
Former Red Sox right-handed pitcher and Medford native Bill Monbouquette died on Sunday at the age of 78, according to The Boston Globe’s Peter Abraham.
Monbouquette was a three-time All Star during his eight-season stint with the Red Sox, throwing a no-hitter in 1962 against the Chicago White Sox and setting what was then a club-record 17 strikeouts in one game in 1961 against the Washington Senators. He was inducted into the Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2000, and ranks 10th all time in team history in strikeouts and 12th in wins.
In his career, he was 114-112, with a 3.68 ERA and 1122 strikeouts. After his first eight seasons in Boston, he played for the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees and San Francisco Giants.
The Boston Globe did a feature on “Monbo’’ in 2008 on his battle against acute myelogenous leukemia and work with the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, as well as a follow-up in 2011 when he was in remission.
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