Saturday, June 29, 1974 1:06PM, Cleveland Stadium
Attendance: 10,220, Time of Game: 2:28

He had pinch ran for petrocelli, stayed in the game, and then on his first AB, SMASHED a towering drive over the outfield wall for his one and only home run. Rick Miller was on base and joined in the jubilant celebration at the plate. I’d like to imagine he had some Fisk body language willing it to stay fair and make it over. Perhaps Fisk learned that move from Hughes. Only 10K or so people know for sure

I see one terry hughes card for sale on ebay….going price 2.99!!
In additon to the facsimilie sig on the card, it has sig in blue by terry.
The signatures are not the same though.

Other Terry Hughes cards appear to be going for .49, so his autograph is worth 2.50! I am sure the stories he could tell are priceless

He couldn’t even spell Rico Petrocelli at 3rd. Rico played both games of the twinbill at 3rd. I suppose Darrel wanted Terry to focus solely on hitting. Eight games later, Terry finally got to play again, batted ninth and played 3rd while Rico P played DH. He responded well with the much needed rest from the stress of being a DH and went 1 for 3. A sharp single was to CF off Frank Tanana.

Another 9 days later Hughes got to play again and went 0-3 batting ninth and the sox still in first, dropped 2 in a row.

It wasn’t until 24 games later that Terry got to play again. This time as a late inning defensive sub for Mario who was PH for by Rice. The RedSox lost again. That huge lead they had in first place a month ago, evaporated and they were now 3GB behind in the 3rd place.

Surprisingly Johnson decided to start Hughes at 3rd batting ninth against the first place orioles on sept 20, 1974. Terry went 0-2. He drew a walk in the 7th. In the 9th. Rice PH for Dick McAuliffe ending the game. No word on whether Terry would have batted next in this important game.

At 4 GB against the orioles with 11 games to go, the nod went to Hughes to play 3rd and bat in the comfortable 9th position. He went 1-4 as the Sox lost.

The RedSox moved to 79-74 with a win over the yanks moving the 3.5 back of Bal. Hughes goes 1-4 batting ninth striking out 3 times.
He plays again the next night, batting 8th going 1-4 with single off Gura in the heat of the pennant chase.

In game 156 he came on late in the game and got HPB. No word on if there was a brawl. I would like to imagine that that incident sparked a brawl as a fired up Hughes stormed the mound and john hiller to let the league know boston is NOT giving up yet. He scored that inning on another CBG Bob Montgomory single.

Liking the fire Hughes brought to the team, Johnson starts Hughes again and he goes 1-3 with a BB as the Sox win.

Game 160 and the SOX officially out of it, Hughes plays 3rd bats 7th and goes 0-3 with to K’s.
Game 161 he goes 1-2 batting 7th and playing 3rd
Game 162 he goes 1-4 with a K. His last official AB a ground out to 3rd.

Wow the RedSox let the season get away. It appears perphaps RicoP was injuried late in the season?

Anyway, I don’t know how much you RedSox fans attribute the demise of your season to Terry Hughes. But he clearly played a part : )
5K people saw Hughes last game game on 10.2.1974
Were you one of them?

In May of 1975 I thought Terry Hughes was the MAN of Boston as my whole collection of cards at that time for boston consisted of Terry Hughes and Mario Guerrero.

He looked just like the neighbor who lived next door to me for years, who I liked. So I had a certain fondness for Terry Hughes. For 4 months I thought for sure, in my imaginative mind, that Mr Hughes was holding down the hot corner in Boston.

I eventually picked up a Rico Petrocelli card and learned there was more to Boston then Terry Hughes.

I never saw Hughes in the box scores, but assumed he must have had some vital role in 1975. I see now, he didnt even play in 1975 for the Red Sox.

Apparently the Cards regretted get rid of this ‘hot prospect’ and wanted him back. They purchased him from the Red Sox.

I see he played 1 game as a DH for the RedSox in 1974. WTF? These stupid tidbits of information i need to know!

Sir, I stand before you in awe. (Really.)

6 : “If I didn’t know better, I would think you were creating these guys yourself in Photoshop.”

I assure you, I don’t have the imagination needed to create Terry Hughes.

7 : Yeah, I remember Desolation Angels as having a heart-breaking downward trajectory. I haven’t had the heart to read Big Sur yet. The period it covers is referred to at length in that oral biography I mentioned, Jack’s Book, and Kerouac comes across as being lost, in great pain, and even (in terms of demonizing his prospective 4-year-old stepson and demanding that the kid be sent far away to boarding school) cruel.

That mustache ain’t working for Terry Hughes.
That’s a parking-lot-attendant-who-wishes-he-was-Sonny-Barger mustache.

2 I have a friend whose parents did and still do live in Pittsfield, Massachusetts and they took in players for the short-season Pittsfield Red Sox of the NY-Penn league. Their boarder was Carmen Fanzone. They said he was a terrific young man. Years later, I slept in the same pull-out sofa bed as the young Carmen Fanzone.

2 : It’d be hard for me not to go nuts on such a table, but then again I’m a huge cheapskate.

3 : Right. Also in that trade were two very evocative names from my youth, Reggie Cleveland and Diego Segui.

You wouldn’t guess it from his hard-worn anonymous face, but Hughes was a phenom when he was younger, or he must have been: he was the second player taken in the 1967 amateur draft. Something must have soured somewhere between point A and point B, however. But as the back of this card states, Hughes found triumph along the way, as a member of three AAA championships.