1986 Boston Red Sox

1986 Boston Red Sox / Franchise: Boston Red Sox / BR Team Page

Record: 95-66, Finished 1st in AL Eastern Division (1986 AL)

Clinched Division: September 28, 1986, vs. Toronto Blue Jays

Won AL Pennant

Managed by John McNamara

Coaches: Bill Fischer, Walt Hriniak, Rene Lachemann and Joe Morgan

Ballpark: Fenway Park

History, Comments, Contributions

The 1986 Boston Red Sox started the year on a good omen, as Dwight Evans homered leading off the first game of the season.

Awards and Honors

• All-Stars: Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens, Rich Gedman and Jim Rice
• AL MVP: Roger Clemens
• AL Cy Young Award: Roger Clemens
• AL Silver Slugger Award: Don Baylor (DH) and Wade Boggs (3B)
• AL Manager of the Year Award: John McNamara

Further Reading

• Ira Berkow, Special to the New York Times "RED SOX CLINCH A TIE FOR EAST TITLE", New York Times, September 28, 1986
• Howard Burman: Season of Ghosts: The '86 Mets and the Red Sox, McFarland, Jefferson, NC, 2013. ISBN 978-0-7864-7042-6
• T.S. Flynn: "September 28, 1986: Boston Red Sox 12, Toronto Blue Jays 3, at Fenway Park, Boston - Red Sox clinch American League Eastern Division", in Bill Nowlin and Leslie Heaphy, ed.: The 1986 Boston Red Sox: There Was More Than Game 6, SABR, Phoenix, AZ, 2016. pp. 336-338. ISBN 978-1-943816-19-4
• Michael Huber: "May 19, 1986: Boston Red Sox 6, Minnesota Twins 7, at Fenway Park - Boston wins in a walk-off for the second game in a row", in Bill Nowlin and Leslie Heaphy, ed.: The 1986 Boston Red Sox: There Was More Than Game 6, SABR, Phoenix, AZ, 2016. pp. 324-325. ISBN 978-1-943816-19-4
• John Kuenster: Heartbreakers: Baseball's Most Agonizing Defeats, Ivan R. Dee Publishers, Chicago, IL, 2001. ISBN 978-1566634120
• Bill Nowlin: "August 21, 1986: Boston Red Sox 24, Cleveland Indians 5, at Cleveland Stadium", in Bill Nowlin and Leslie Heaphy, ed.: The 1986 Boston Red Sox: There Was More Than Game 6, SABR, Phoenix, AZ, 2016. pp. 330-331. ISBN 978-1-943816-19-4
• Bill Nowlin and Leslie Heaphy, ed.: The 1986 Boston Red Sox: There Was More Than Game 6, SABR, Phoenix, AZ, 2016. ISBN 978-1-943816-19-4
• Dan Shaughnessy: One Strike Away: The Story of the 1986 Red Sox, Beaufort Books, New York, NY, 1987. ISBN 978-0825304262
• Erik Sherman: Two Sides of Glory: The 1986 Boston Red Sox in Their Own Words, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, NE, 2021. ISBN 978-1-4962-1932-9
• Doug Skipper: "May 20, 1986: Boston Red Sox 17, Minnesota Twins 7, at Fenway Park - Wade Boggs collects five hits for the Red Sox", in Bill Nowlin and Leslie Heaphy, ed.: The 1986 Boston Red Sox: There Was More Than Game 6, SABR, Phoenix, AZ, 2016. pp. 327-329. ISBN 978-1-943816-19-4
• Cecilia Tan and Bill Nowlin: "April 29, 1986: Boston Red Sox 6, Seattle Mariners 1, at Fenway Park - The first 20-K game in the majors", in Bill Nowlin and Leslie Heaphy, ed.: The 1986 Boston Red Sox: There Was More Than Game 6, SABR, Phoenix, AZ, 2016. pp. 321-323. ISBN 978-1-943816-19-4
• Saul Wisnia: "September 4, 1986: New York Mets 7, Boston Red Sox 6, at Fenway Park - Prelude to a classic (Charity game for Jimmy Fund of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute)", in Bill Nowlin and Leslie Heaphy, ed.: The 1986 Boston Red Sox: There Was More Than Game 6, SABR, Phoenix, AZ, 2016. pp. 332-335. ISBN 978-1-943816-19-4

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