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费城人队首支冠军球队的防守中坚鲍勃·布恩去世,享年78岁
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七座金手套奖,衡量了鲍勃·布恩棒球生涯中最受依赖他的队友看重的一面:他在本垒后的表现。在19个大联盟赛季中,布恩以出色的防守著称。在费城,他的表现帮助费城费城人队赢得了队史首个总冠军。3
他的离世带来两重失落:一位与队友情谊延续数十年的冠军成员离去,也是一位身处大联盟三代家族核心的父亲离去。他的父亲雷先于他征战大联盟;他的儿子布雷特和亚伦随后也进入大联盟。亚伦如今执教纽约洋基队。1
最清楚地描述布恩在费城人队地位的人,是拉里·博瓦。在球队分享、并由 CBS Philadelphia 刊载的悼文中,这位前游击手回忆说,他有幸几乎在整个职业生涯中都与布恩并肩作战。随后,他用一个词说出了奖项和数据未能充分传达的东西。1
毫无疑问,他是我们球队的支柱。
首个总冠军背后的捕手
他的常规赛生涯打击数据为:7,245个打数,打击率.254,105支本垒打,826分打点。这些数字展现的是漫长的球员生涯,并非他在1980年世界大赛中的表现。它们是他成绩记录的一部分,却无法单独解释为什么与他并肩作战的人会称他不可或缺。要理解这一点,他们的悼念更能说明问题。13
迈克·施密特说,布恩做了他十多年的队友,也是他相交50年的朋友。施密特在 CBS Philadelphia 刊载的追忆中说:“我们的人生和职业生涯交织在一起。”“我们一起践行基督教信仰,一起训练,也一起成为世界冠军。”冠军只是这句话所述关系的一部分,而非全部。1
格雷格·卢辛斯基则追溯到更早的时候:两家人的友谊始于1969年,地点是北卡罗来纳州达勒姆,那时布恩还没有在大联盟首次亮相。“鲍勃是个很棒的人,我们情同手足,”卢辛斯基说。“安息吧,我的兄弟。”这些悼念共同描绘出一种比对昔日冠军阵容的情谊更持久的东西:因共同奋斗而结下、并在那段经历结束后依然延续的友谊。1
费城人队于2005年将布恩列入球队名人墙。他去世后,球队在追忆他时着重强调了他作为球员、队友和家人的品质,称赞他在场上场下的为人。正式荣誉与私人追忆都指向他在球队历史中的同一位置:他不仅是球队首支冠军队的一员,更是队友在球队核心位置上信赖的人。1
三代棒球人中的承上启下者
不过,对布雷特而言,这则消息首先关乎一位父亲,而非棒球史。Bleacher Report 引述他在 Facebook 声明中的话:“他是一个极其正直的人。”“他是位好父亲、好丈夫,也是家族的支柱。能称他为我的父亲,是我的荣幸。”10
他也曾在球队管理层任职。ESPN 于2008年2月18日刊发的一篇报道称,布恩当时是华盛顿国民队的助理总经理。这一历史记录能证明他在职业生涯那个阶段担任过该职务,但并不意味着有报道说他去世时仍担任这一职位。21
洋基队在悼念声明中也提到了布恩职业生涯的广度:“他一生都在回馈自己热爱的这项运动,既是杰出的球员、受人尊敬的教练,也是一位卓越的管理层人士。”他的职业生涯横跨棒球工作的多个领域,他的家族则跨越了棒球的几代人。5
然而,最能说明问题的追忆谈的不是头衔,而是情谊:施密特口中相交50年的朋友、卢辛斯基名副其实的兄弟,以及博瓦所说的球队支柱。七座金手套奖证明了这位捕手的卓越;队友们则让人明白,这位男士的离去意味着什么。
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- Bob Boone, who caught for Philadelphia's first World Series champions, has died at 78. His death reaches the teammates who won beside him and a family spanning three generations of major league baseball. What made Boone the player those championship teammates called their backbone?
- His son Bret announced his death on Facebook Tuesday morning, November 10. Boone died Monday, November 9. No cause of death has been announced. Bret remembered his father as a man of great integrity and wrote, “Baseball lost a great one.”
- For Philadelphia, Boone's place in baseball history runs through the championship the franchise had never won before. He spent ten seasons with the Phillies, from 1972 through 1981. He was behind the plate during their breakthrough season.
- Philadelphia won the 1980 World Series four games to two. That championship became a shared landmark for Boone and his teammates. Their remembrances describe friendships that continued for decades after the games ended, and a catcher they trusted at the center of their team.
- Boone earned recognition across a much longer stretch than that championship season. He made four All-Star teams during a nineteen-year major league playing career. His strongest collection of individual honors came for his defense, the work that defined his reputation behind the plate.
- Boone won seven Gold Glove Awards. Those honors recognize defensive excellence. Alongside his four All-Star selections, they give a measurable foundation to the praise from teammates who depended on him through their years together.
- His major league career began on September 10, 1972. His final appearance came on September 27, 1990. Across those years, he built the playing record that Philadelphia would later recognize with a permanent place among its franchise greats.
- The Phillies inducted Boone into their Wall of Fame in 2005. The honor connected his ten seasons in Philadelphia with the club's lasting history. In remembering him, the team praised his qualities as a player, teammate and family man.
- Boone's regular-season batting totals also capture the length of that career. He finished with a .254 average in 7,245 at-bats. His record included 105 home runs and 826 runs batted in, production accumulated over nineteen years in the majors.
- He also stole 38 bases. His career OPS was .661. That's on-base percentage plus slugging percentage, combining how often a hitter reaches base with his power. But his former teammates spoke most directly about the person they worked beside.
- Larry Bowa called Boone “the backbone of our team.” He said, “We lost a very special member of the Phillies family today.” Bowa remembered the privilege of playing alongside him for nearly his entire career.
- Mike Schmidt's remembrance reached well beyond their time on the field. He described Boone as his teammate for over a decade and his friend for fifty years. The friendship included their Christian faith, their workouts and the championship they pursued together.
- “It was a sorrowful day yesterday as we learned of the passing of Bob Boone,” Schmidt said. His tribute joined the loss of a longtime friend to the achievement that had bound their careers together as world champions.
- Greg Luzinski traced his family's friendship with the Boones back to 1969 in Durham, North Carolina. That connection predated Boone's major league debut. Luzinski's remembrance described a relationship that had become as close as family.
- “The Boones have been our friends since 1969 in Durham, N.C.,” Luzinski said. “Bob was a great man and we were like brothers. Rest in peace, my brother.”
- Boone was born November 19, 1947, in San Diego, California. Baseball connected his own childhood to the careers his sons would build. His father, Ray, played in the majors, and two of Bob's three sons followed him there.
- Ray Boone's major league career came before Bob's. Then Bret and Aaron extended the family's presence into a third generation. Bret became a three-time All-Star. Aaron also played in the majors and now manages the New York Yankees.
- Boone's influence carried through both those family relationships and his own work after playing. His teammates remembered the defensive anchor of their championship club. His sons followed the same profession. He went on to manage the Kansas City Royals and Cincinnati Reds.
- Boone managed 815 major league games with Kansas City and Cincinnati. His combined record was 371 wins and 444 losses. Managing added another chapter to a baseball life that would also include work in a team's front office.
- By February 2008, Boone was serving as the Washington Nationals' assistant general manager. The Yankees remembered that breadth of work when they mourned his death, describing a lifetime giving back to baseball as an exceptional player, respected manager and distinguished executive.
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