After honoring past, current Red Sox celebrate with home opener win

As Fenway Park rocked with excitement in a furious five-run bottom of the first inning in Friday’s home opener, a player who won the American League’s Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player Awards in the same season a half-century ago was swept up in the frenetic.
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