Impossible Dreamers 1967 -- Remember Mike Andrews And Reggie Smith?
"Denver - They appear together on their Topps rookie card, the second baseman and the center fielder who started together in the World Series. Before there was Dustin Pedroia and Jacoby Ellsbury, there were Mike Andrews and Reggie Smith, who played for the Sox Impossible Dreamers in 1967.
"'It's funny, but I'd never related it before to Reggie and myself,' Andrews said yesterday from his home, where he'd just finished watching the Patriots crush the Washington Redskins. 'Maybe because Reggie was around all season and Jacoby just came up.
"But I think Dustin, coming up for a World Series contender, there was this expectation of being good right out of the chute. Here you are, on a contender with only a few holes, and you're one of them. The pressure on him was a lot more than on me. We were 100-to-1 shots, and with me, it was 'Let's see how this develops.'
"'Dustin, with all the media and TV, his face is in front of us every night. Back then, we had maybe one game a week on TV. He's in a whole different world, on stage all the time. The pressure is a lot greater."
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