Yawkey Foundation Joins The Sports Museum to Celebrate Exhibit Highlighting the 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox

On October 10^th, Yawkey Foundation Trustees and friends gathered with The Sports Museum leadership, baseball writers, broadcasters, historians, and Red Sox alumni players to celebrate the museum’s new exhibit, “Summer of Love: The 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox” on view now through 2025. 

The Summer of Love exhibit reflects the youthful exuberance, integration, and brotherhood that existed among the 1967 Boston Red

Sox. The team that started the season with 100-to-1 odds captured the American League pennant and revitalized the enormous appeal among the fanbase – a popularity that continues to reverberate and endure to this day. The team was youthful and diverse – many of the players were either rookies or early in their careers and it was one of the most integrated teams in major league baseball. 

The exhibit features imagery of players interacting on the field and in the clubhouse as well as with key figures of the ownership and management team, including Red Sox owner Tom Yawkey and many others.

As part of the event, sportswriter and avid Red Sox fan Sean McAdam moderated a conversation with members of the Impossible Dream roster, including Gary Bell, Jim Lonborg, and Rico Petrocelli to relive the season that reconnected the team to its fans in Boston and across the nation and which meant so much to Tom Yawkey and Jean Yawkey.  In addition to the three panelists, several other alumni team members were in attendance and contributed to the conversation for a lively dialogue and poignant reminiscence of the special season, including Darrell Brandon, Dave Morehead, Billy Rohr, Jose Santiago, and Carl Yastrzemski.

The Yawkey Foundation has a longstanding history with the The Sports Museum, dating back to 1989 when Jean Yawkey took a personal interest in making the launch and success of the Sports Museum a priority. This includes a major grant to its first site at the Cambridgeside Galleria, where the museum first opened in 1992, as well as loans of photos and archives for the Yawkey Pavilion within the museum. Yawkey Foundation is proud to be a partner on this meaningful exhibit.