{"id":2325,"date":"2024-06-11T08:53:06","date_gmt":"2024-06-11T12:53:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/?p=2325"},"modified":"2024-06-24T14:18:25","modified_gmt":"2024-06-24T18:18:25","slug":"reunion-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/reunions\/reunion-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Reunion #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

SUNDAY, JULY 29, 2001 – GODDARD STATE PARK<\/strong><\/p>\n

The RI Reds Heritage Society\u2019s first annual reunion was referred to as a \u201cSmash Hit\u201d. With \u201cRoll Out the Barrell\u201d the most popular song of the afternoon, 230 attendees were treated to a great BBQ, a popular raffle, and much exaggerated story telling. It all took place at the scenic Goddard Park Carousel on Greenwich Bay under perfect skies.<\/p>\n

Everyone was excited! Autographs were sought and fans and players mingled all afternoon. At this point there were already 285 members in the Society. Amazing, as the Reds hadn\u2019t played in 24 years! There were over 25 Reds players and employees in attendance: Lou Pieri, Jr., Bob Robertson, Buzz Deschamps, Al Bentley, Ross Brooks, Stan Baluik, Serge Boudreault, Gil Mayer, Wayne Muloin, George Sage, George Patrick Duffy, Harvey Bennett, Don McKenney, Jack McGeough, Pete Demers, Chuck Scherza, Buster Clegg, Ray Clearwater, Fernie Flaman, Bo Elik, Bob Leduc, Dan Poliziani, Ray Ross, Jack Butterfield, Gordie Anziano, Ed Ellsworth.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s Tops Award winners were Chuck Scherza and George Patrick Duffy.<\/p>\n

A highlight of the afternoon was George Patrick Duffy, the Voice of the Reds, doing a 3-minute play-by- play re-creation from the 20-foot balcony serving as the press box. \u201cToppazzini Scooorrrsss!” was the climax. It was followed by a standing ovation from the audience.<\/p>\n

What a great day. The first reunion of twenty.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

Gallery<\/h3><\/div>
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2001-Reds-lineup<\/h2>

Reds legends line up for the Society's first reunion<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2001-Keats,-Buster,-Bierne-Bill,-Jim,-Tom<\/h2>

Reunion Committee-Les, Buster, Larry, Bill, Jim & Tom<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2001-Gil-Marielle-Mayer<\/h2>

Gil and Marielle Mayer<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2001-FL-Pieri,-Lou-Jr,-wife<\/h2>

Lou Pieri, Jr and wife, Maureen, flank son Lou Pieri III<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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2001-D-Poliziani,-L-Pieri,-G-Sage<\/h2>

Danny Poliziani gets acquainted with Lou & George<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2413,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reunions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2325"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3392,"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2325\/revisions\/3392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rihhof.com\/rireds.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}