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| Tony Conigliaro | |
|---|---|
 Conigliaro in 1966 | |
| Right fielder | |
| Born: January 7, 1945 Revere, Massachusetts, U.S. | |
| Died: February 24, 1990 (aged 45) Salem, Massachusetts, U.S. | |
Batted: Right Threw: Right | |
| MLB debut | |
| April 16, 1964, for the Boston Red Sox | |
| Last MLB appearance | |
| June 12, 1975, for the Boston Red Sox | |
| MLB statistics | |
| Batting average | .264 |
| Home runs | 166 |
| Runs batted in | 516 |
| Stats at Baseball Reference | |
| Teams | |
| Career highlights and awards | |
Anthony Richard Conigliaro (January 7, 1945 – February 24, 1990), nicknamed "Tony C" and "Conig",[1][2] was an American Major League Baseball outfielder and right-handed batter who played for the Boston Red Sox (1964–1967, 1969–1970, 1975) and California Angels (1971). Born in Revere, Massachusetts, he was a 1962 graduate of St. Mary's High School in Lynn, Massachusetts. Conigliaro started his MLB career as a teenager, hitting a home run in his first at-bat during his home field debut in 1964, and reaching 100 career home runs faster than any player in American League history.
During the Red Sox "Impossible Dream" season of 1967, he was hit in the face by a pitch that caused a severe eye injury and derailed his career. Though he would make a comeback from the injury, his career was not the same afterwards, as he lost vision in one eye over time. After retirement from baseball, he had a heart attack and suffered brain damage at age 37, leaving him severely impaired for the last eight years of his life. Hall of Fame baseball writer Peter Gammons' article in Sports Illustrated at the time of Congliaro's 1990 death is entitled "A Life Torn By Tragedy".[3][4]
- ^ Time Magazine, 1969, Conig's Comeback
- ^ Tony Conigliaro Forty Years Later: A Remembrance by Shaun L. Kelly
- ^ Gammons, Peter (March 5, 1990). "A Life Torn By Tragedy". Sports Illustrated.
- ^ "2004 BBWAA Career Excellence Award Winner Peter Gammons | Baseball Hall of Fame". baseballhall.org. Retrieved January 26, 2025.