Manny being Manny.

That happened long before he signed with the Red Sox, after being a four-time All-Star with the Cleveland Indians, but it was at Fenway where the baseball world really began to see him on a national stage.

Dustin Pedroia debuted in 2006 with the Red Sox two seasons after he was drafted in the second round, and it did not take him long to prove that he belonged in the upper tier of American League players.

Playing all 14 of his Major League seasons with the Boston Red Sox, Bobby Doerr began his career in 1937 and became the permanent Second Baseman the season after.  Throughout his career, he was considered to be among the better defensive infielders of the game.  In 1941, Doerr would be chosen for the first of what would be nine All-Star Games, and for his time, he was one of the better hitting Second Basemen.

Lefty Grove was an elite pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics, and he would win the ERA Title four years in a row, from 1929 to 1932.  In the first three of those years, Grove took the Athletics to three World Series, winning the first two.  His work in Philadelphia was probably enough to earn him a spot in Cooperstown, but in Boston, he had a beautiful end to his career.