Ric Glaub's Biography

Richard Glaub was born just after the turn of the past half century in Boise, Idaho - a place bereft of major league baseball. His first brush with the major leagues was at the age of eight, when the Milwaukee Braves came to Boise to play an exhibition game with the Boise Braves, of the Class C Pioneer League (for two seasons the Boise Yankees were a Yankees farm team, before affiliating with the Braves). It was a thrilling day as Richard was able to get Warren Spahn's autograph. Catching for the Boise nine that day was a young prospect named Joe Torre. A year later, Richard became a strong Pittsburgh Pirates fan because an Idaho-born pitcher named Vern Law helped lead the Pirates to a thrilling World Series win in 1960. It was then that Richard began to hate the Yankees. The Pirates thing didn't really take root and Richard became a free agent major league fan, flirting with such teams as the L.A. Dodgers and later the Seattle Mariners. That all ended on a shiny day in 1983 when he first walked through a tunnel at Fenway Park to see a twi-night double header and was presented with the emerald green Sox playing field and the Green Monster. Richard was smitten on that day and has been a loyal, naturalized Red Sox fan ever since. While there are those who consider Richard suspect, as he has only been a Red Sox fan for 25 years, he points out that he has hated the Yankees for almost 50 years, and that anyone who stayed loyal through the ’86 season should be cut some slack. He now resides in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, where he continues to follow and report on the Carmine Hose.