Rico Petrocelli
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Americo "Rico" Petrocelli, born June 27, 1943, is an American former baseball shortstop and third baseman who played for the Boston Red Sox for his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career.
He was a threw and batted right-handed and was listed at 6 feet 0 inches (1.83 m) and 185 pounds (84 kg).
Early years
Petrocelli was born in Brooklyn and graduated from Sheepshead Bay High School in 1961.
Playing career
Petrocelli was signed by the Boston Red Sox as an amateur free agent in July 1961.
Petrocelli spent the 1962 season with Boston's Class B farm team, the Winston-Salem Red Sox, batting.277 with 17 home runs and 80 RBIs in 137 games played. He appeared for the Double-A Reading Red Sox in 1963, a.239 average of 19 home runs and 78 RBIs.
Petrocelli was a call-up with Boston in 1963 and appeared in a single MLB game against the Minnesota Twins on September 21. He was the starting shortstop and was 1-for-4 at the plate, with his first major league hit being a double off Lee Stange. Petrocelli played 134 games for the Triple-A Seattle Rainiers in 1964, batting.231 with 10 home runs and 48 RBIs.
Petrocelli played in 103 games during the 1965 season, the youngest in Boston; he made 93 appearances at shortstop. He batted.232 with 13 home runs and 33 RBIs on the season. Petrocelli batted.238 with 18 home runs and 59 RBIs in 139 games played in 1966.
Petrocelli was selected to the All-Star game in 1967, Boston's "Impossible Dream," and he went batless in his first at bat. Petrocelli played in 142 regular season games, with 17 home runs, 66 RBIs, and a.259 average. He appeared in all seven games, batting 4-for-20 (.200) with two home runs and three RBIs. Both of his home runs were in Game 6, off of Dick Hughes of the St. Louis Cardinals. Boston lost the series by four games to three.
Petrocelli played 123 games in 1968, totaling a whopping.234 with 12 home runs and 46 RBIs. With 40, he set a new record for home runs by a shortstop; he had 97 RBIs and a career-high.297 average when playing 154 games. He also played in his second All-Star game, starting at shortstop for the American League squad and going 1-for-3 at the plate, with a double off Jerry Koosman. In both 1968 and 1969, Petrocelli led American League shortstops in fielding percentages of.978 and.981, respectively.
In 1970, Petrocelli batted.261 in 157 games and had a career-high 103 RBIs, while others had a career-high 103 RBIs, while Petrocelli had 29 home runs and a career-high 103 RBIs. In 1971, the Red Sox acquired shortstop Luis Aparicio and Petrocelli, who then moved to third base. He led the American League third basemen in fielding percentage (.976), but only made 11 errors in 463 total chances. He batted.251 in 158 games, with 28 home runs and 89 RBIs.
Petrocelli batted.240 with 15 home runs and 75 RBIs in 1972, despite playing in 147 games. Petrocelli did not play after August 11 due to a calcium deposit in his right elbow, which necessitated surgery. He appeared in 100 games this season, batting.244 with 13 home runs and 45 RBIs. He played 129 games with 15 home runs, 76 RBIs, and a.267 average in 1974. He did not play after September 15, when Jim Slaton of the Milwaukee Brewers was struck in the chest by a pitch.
Petrocelli batted.239 in 115 games in 1975, with seven home runs and 59 RBIs. He skipped the second half of August due to an internal ear injury presumably related to his 1974 beaning. Boston won the American League East and met the Oakland Athletics in the American League Championship Series for the first time. Petrocelli started all three games at third base after the Red Sox swept the A's, while batting 2-for-12 (.167) with a home run and two RBIs. Petrocelli scored.308 (8-for-26) in the 1975 World Series, when Boston lost to the Cincinnati Reds. During the 1975 playoffs, he did not commit an error.
Petrocelli was placed on the disabled list on August 20, 1976, due to further inner ear injuries; he played in only three more games this year. In 85 games played, he batted a career-low.213 with three home runs and 24 RBIs. The Red Sox named Petrocelli as the team's regular third baseman during spring training in 1977.
Petrocelli had 210 home runs with 773 RBIs and 653 runs scored in 1553 games played, with a.251 average. Petrocelli has the eighth-best all-time fielding percentage for third basemen as of 2018 (.970). In 1997, he was inducted into the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame.
Post-playing career
Petrocelli spent his time in broadcasting and as a minor league boss. Rico Petrocelli's Tales from the Impossible Dream Red Sox, a book about the 1967 Boston Red Sox season, appeared in later this year.
Petrocelli was color commentator for local radio broadcasts on WITS-AM 1510 during the 1979 Boston Red Sox season, working with Ken Coleman. He began hosting Candlepins for Cash on WXNE-TV, Channel 25 in Boston in 1980; he hosted the game from 1980 to 1982. Petrocelli teamed with Jim Woods on April 17, 1980, to schedule a match between the Kansas City Royals and the Baltimore Orioles for the USA Network.
Petrocelli operated within the Chicago White Sox and the Boston Red Sox's farm systems.