American poet best known as the “poet laureate of the Boston Red Sox”, as well the team’s public address announcer and a journalist, TV commentator and playwright, Dick Flavin has died.
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Flavin was born on December 7, 1936 and died on December 28, 2022. He was 86 years.
Was Dick Flavin Married?
Dick Flavin was believed to be married. However, there are no details of his wife at the moment.
Who Was Dick Flavin?
Dick Flavin wrote a lot of poems about the Red Sox, and was eventually named their ‘poet laureate’.
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In 2013, Flavin was also named the public address announcer for day games at Fenway Park.
In 2015, he compiled his poems into a book, Red Sox Rhymes: Verses and Curses, which was praised by notable Red Sox fans including Doris Kearns Goodwin and Michael Dukakis.
In a promotional video, Flavin said the book could teach “everything you want to know about the Red Sox, and it does it all in verse.”
The book appeared on the New York Times sports bestseller list in August and September 2015.
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