1975 Red Sox Yearbook Tony Conigliaro and Cecil Cooper

Here's a page from the 1975 Red Sox Yearbook. Compared to the yearbooks just a couple of years later it's a pretty drab affair- black and white pictures and stats. Some of the Red Sox players in 1975 were awesome- that was the year they made the World Series and lost to the Big Red Machine despite Carlton Fisk's famous home run.

Here are two such players- Tony Conigliaro was a Boston star until he was beaned in 1967. He was very young at the time. His career before the beaning was amazing- he was a surefire Hall of Famer if he could keep playing at the level he showed he could play at as a teenager in the major leagues! He was never the same after the beaning, and 1975 was his last year as a player.

Cecil Cooper was drafted by the Sox and played for them until right around this time. He was traded to the Brewers, changed his batting stance to one more like Rod Carew's and really started to hit.