An All-Star second baseman, he spent 34 years as a broadcast analyst and was voted the first president of Red Sox Nation by fans.
Jerry Remy, the Boston Red Sox second baseman who became a fan favorite of Red Sox Nation as the team’s broadcast analyst for the last 34 years, died on Saturday. He was 68. The cause was cancer, the Red Sox said. They did not say where he died. Remy had been on leave from his color commentary post with NESN, the New England Sports Network, since early August when he underwent his seventh in a series of treatments for lung cancer, which was first diagnosed in 2008. He had spoken out against smoking. “I started smoking when I was 16 years old,” Remy said in a 2019 interview with the Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center. My saying is: ‘Don’t pick up the first one because it’s really tough to put down the last one.” Remy’s last appearance at Fenway Park was on Oct.5 when he was driven in a cart to home plate before the American League wild-card playoff game against the Yankees on and threw out the first ball. Gerald Peter Remy was born on Nov.8,1952, in Fall River, Mass., and grew up in nearby Somerset. He attended Roger Williams College (now Roger Williams University) in Bristol, R.
