Livin' in the '80s.

I am pleasingly close to completing a decade, just 29 players away from a card of every player to wear a Sox uniform during the 1980s.

Pictured, of course, is a gorgeous Donruss 1982 Jerry Remy. By gorgeous I mean kind of boring, and a fairly unimaginative effort. But Donruss was but a year old then, so we will let it pass.

Remy is probably better known as a broadcaster than the "100th best secondbaseman in history according to Bill James" at this point. I have never heard him, since he works for NESN, which was an extra cost when I lived in New England oh so long ago. The first I heard of NESN was that we didn't have it, and that was where most of the Red Sox games were, which pissed my wee self off. I liked Bob Montgomery on WSBK. Since that is what we had.

Player, and years played with the Sox, not card years;

Jack Billingham, 1980

Sam Bowen, 1977-1980

Brian Denman, 1982

Jim Dorsey, 1984-1985

Lee Graham, 1983

John Lickert, 1981

Tom McCarthy, 1985

Stan Papi, 1979-1980

Dave Schmidt, 1981

Danny Sheaffer, 1987

Ted Sizemore, 1979-1980

Chico Walker, 1980-1984 (minor league cards)

Hell, I don't even know if all of them even had cards as Red Sox.

And now, a musical interlude. Rock!