Thursday, March 1, 2012

Jason varitek

  • FORT MYERS — Jason Varitek [stats] is a barrel-chested bear of a man. He stands 6-foot-2, weighs 230 pounds, and even now, one month shy of his 40th birthday, he's all-muscle.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • Jason Varitek the longtime catcher and captain of the Red Sox, officially called it quits on Thursday, ending his 15-year career in an emotional news conference on the diamond at the teams spring training camp in Florida.
  • (Chicago Tribune)
  • FORT MYERS — The Fight of This Century never gets old. Somebody ran in to rouse him. He had 20 minutes before his first pitch. "I was as ice cold as anybody could ever be," Arroyo said recently. "But I made it through the first inning somehow.
  • (Boston Herald)
  • Boston Red Sox captain Jason Varitek will announce his retirement at the teams spring training facility in Fort Myers, Fla., at 5:30 p.m., and befitting his status, it will be televised by NESN.
  • (Hartford Courant)
  • The Boston Red Sox are saying goodbye to their captain. Catcher Jason Varitek has decided to retire after 15 seasons with the Red Sox, CBSSports.coms Jon Heyman has confirmed. The Boston Globe first reported Variteks decision.
  • (CBS News)
  • Jason Varitek, who played for the Boston Red Sox from 1997 to 2011, is going to announce his retirement on March 1.
  • (YAHOO!)
  • After 15 big league seasons behind the plate in Boston, Red Sox catcher and team captain Jason Varitek has reached his peak as a baseball player and is ready to retire.
  • (The Inquisitr)
  • FORT MYERS, Fla. - It took Red Sox pitcher Clay Buchholz a few years to muster up the courage to approach team captain Jason Varitek and ask a few questions.
  • (Boston Globe)
  • FORT MYERS, Fla. -- When pitchers and catchers reported to Red Sox spring training earlier this month and Jason Varitek was not in camp, it was a strange feeling.
  • (ESPN)
  • 8 a.m.: Oh Captain, My Captain! Rise up and hear the bells, says Walt Whitman in his famous poem.
  • (NESN.com)

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