About Dick Radatz
Richard Raymond Radatz was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed "The Monster", the 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), 230 lb (100 kg) right-hander had a scorching but short-lived period of dominance for the Boston Red Sox in the early 1960s. Radatz is reported to have gotten his nickname during a game against the New York Yankees in Boston in 1963 in which he came in to pitch with the bases loaded and no one out. He consecutively struck out Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Elston Howard, after which Mantle grumbled about Radatz being "that monster". Over his career, Radatz struck out Hall of Famer Mantle 44 times in 63 at-bats. In 1957, Radatz and Perranoski played for the Watertown Lake Sox of the Basin League in South Dakota, with whom he had a 10-1 record. This broke his own record, set in 1963 when he struck out 162. He had a 7–1 won–loss record, the team winning the American Baseball Congress junior title in August of 1954.
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