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...Silvera now works as a scout for the Cubs, and can sympathize with an organization whose last World Series title came when Mark Twain was still alive...
Though he had a lifetime .356 OBP, Silvera hit just one career home run and appeared in just one of New York’s seven World Series during his tenure. Nevertheless, he is one of many players to contribute to the greatness of the Red Sox-Yankees rivalry...
...orgastic future that year by year recedes before us,” but baseball and the Boston-New York rivalry have only improved since the golden age of Silvera’s playing days. Baseball has history in a way that basketball and football don’t. Silvera is one piece of that history, simultaneously a reminder of what was and a reason for why the present is so special...
Casual fans have never heard of him, but Silvera has his own following. He was close friends with Mickey Mantle—“Nice guy, great ballplayer” Silvera says of the Mick—and warmed up Don Larsen before his legendary perfect game in the 1956 World Series. Silvera even played with Joe DiMaggio, the Yankee link from the Gehrig/Ruth days to the fifties and sixties of Mickey Mantle...
...wasn’t an all-star, or even a starter, but Charlie Silvera was still an integral part of one of the best teams and best rivalries of the century. It’s contributions by guys like him that make today’s battles so meaningful...