Tony C

"For the few of us who were listening to the occasional spring training game from the Arizonian desert, one name seemed to be on the lips of announcers Curt Gowdy, Ned Martin, and Art Gleason that March - Anthony Richard Conigliaro. In a region where tribal affiliation has always meant a lot, here was another "one of our own." He was only nineteen at the time, a right-handed hitter and outfielder who possessed a faultless, transcendent swing seeming designed especially for Fenway Park itself. Tony Conigliaro had graduated from St. Mary's High School in Lynn less than two years before but had spent most of his life in the back alleys of East Boston. "

A damn fine piece on Tony Conigliaro.