Jim Rice: Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

Line 93:

==Retirement activities==

In 1990, Rice agreed to play with the [[St. Petersburg Pelicans]] of the short-lived [[Senior Professional Baseball Association]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=September 21, 2013|title=The Short-Lived Senior Professional Baseball Association (Fall 1989 to Fall 1990)|url=https://miscbaseball.wordpress.com/2013/09/21/the-short-lived-senior-professional-baseball-association-fall-1989-to-fall-1990/|access-date=March 11, 2021|website=Misc. Baseball|language=en}}</ref> Afterwards, Rice has served as a roving batting coach (1992–1994), and hitting instructor(1995–2000), and remains an instructional batting coach (2001–present) with the Red Sox organization. While the Red Sox hitting coach, the team led the league in hitting in 1997 and players won two [[batting title]]s. Rice was the hitting coach for the American League in the [[1997 Major League Baseball All-Star Game|1997]] and [[1999 Major League Baseball All-Star Game]]s, both under the same manager, the [[New York Yankees]]' [[Joe Torre]]. Since 2003, he's also been employed as a [[sports commentator|commentator]] for the [[New England Sports Network]] (NESN), where he contributes to the Red Sox pre-game and post-game shows. He had a cameo appearance in the NESN movie ''[[Wait Till This Year]]''<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0486512/ Wait 'til This Year (2005) (TV)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and in the film ''[[Fever Pitch]]''.<ref>[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0332047/ Fever Pitch (2005)<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> The former slugger has been known to pass his wisdom on to the current Sox players and stars from time to time. Rice was elected to the [[Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame]] when it first opened in 1995, and he is the 40th member of Ted Williams' Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame, having been inducted along with [[Paul Molitor]], [[Dave Winfield]] and [[Robin Yount]] in 2001.<ref>[http://www.twmuseum.com/events/hhof_2006.html TWM: Inductees to Date<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061230180740/http://www.twmuseum.com/events/hhof_2006.html |date=December 30, 2006 }}</ref> On November 29, 2008, the Boston chapter of the [[Baseball Writers' Association of America]] (BBWAA) announced that Rice would be the recipient of the Emil Fuchs Award for long and meritorious service to baseball.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.boston.com/sports/baseball/redsox/articles/2008/11/29/red_sox_select_bogar_to_replace_alicea_on_staff/ | work=The Boston Globe | title=Red Sox select Bogar to replace Alicea on staff | first=Amalie | last=Benjamin | date=November 29, 2008}}</ref>

During his Hall of Fame acceptance speech Rice revealed that he is a devoted fan of ''[[The Young and the Restless]]'', noting that he was watching the show when he was informed of his election into Cooperstown.<ref>{{Cite web|date=July 27, 2009|title=Transcript: Jim Rice's Hall of Fame Induction Speech|url=https://nesn.com/2009/07/transcript-jim-rices-hall-of-fame-induction-speech/|access-date=March 11, 2021|website=NESN.com|language=en-US}}</ref>