Rich Hill, 40, has had a 16-year career in Major League Baseball, having pitched for nine different teams, including the Red Sox -- twice. A native of Milton, Hill shares his remembrances about growing up in greater Boston in the 1980s and 1990s.
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Boston Sports Journal: Let's start with your memories about playing sports as a kid. Did you play multiple sports growing up?
Rich Hill:
BSJ: What do you remember about playing as a young boy?
RH
Walter Sgroi,
BSJ: You were, at the time, only the fourth kid to have played on the varsity baseball team at Milton High as a freshman. What was that experience like?
RH
BSJ: The era of playing multiple sports seems to have come to an end. Is that a bad thing?
RH:
BSJ: When did you start dreaming about a pro baseball career?
RH:
BSJ: What are your earlier memories of being a Boston fan?
RH:
Mo Vaughn
BSJ: When you were at Fenway as a teenager, did you ever allow yourself to think: 'I could be out there someday?'
RH
BSJ: Did you have favorite baseball players?
RH
Dwight Evans
Roger Clemens
Otis Nixon. Mike Greenwell
Steve Avery,
(Tom) Glavine
(Greg) Maddux
(John) Smoltz
BSJ: Any particular games stand out now?
RH:
Pedro Martinez
David Cone
BSJ: How about the other teams in town?
RH:
Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, Robert Parish
Michael Jordan
BSJ: And the Patriots?
RH
Andre Tippett
Greg McMurtry?
BSJ: That fandom never leaves you, I guess.
RH
Wade Boggs
Ryne Sandberg
Mark McGwire, (Jose Canseco
Nolan Ryan
BSJ: Some memories still seem vivid
RH:
Joe
Mooney