Longtime Red Sox consultant and Pennsylvania native "Broadway" Charlie Wagner has died -- Boston Globe.
Ironically, Wagner had just been honored at a Reading (PA) Phillies (AA) game that night, where the press box at First Energy Stadium is named in his honor.
One report I heard was that he was found in his car outside the stadium after the game. The R-Phils staged a tribute for him the following night.
He was one of those guys who appeared in the Red Sox media guide year after year. I stopped collecting media guides in 2002 (it got too expensive to keep up), but he was still there in uniform as a consultant.
A Wikipedia report is here. RIP, Broadway.
8/30/06 also saw the passing of actor Glenn Ford (I always enjoyed his performance in Imitation General), and George Johnson, one of the few remaining WWI veterans.
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