Last autumn, Boston Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine became the first hire in the tenure of newly appointed general manager Ben Cherington. That made him the first new coach/manager tabbed by a new general manager on the city’s professional sports scene since Peter Chiarelli came to town—and put Dave Lewis behind the Bruins bench.
Valentine tacked on another basic common thread with Lewis on Thursday when he was discharged from his Fenway Park office after a single season. That makes him Lewis’ only companion among Boston sports skippers of this young century not to be invited back for a second campaign.
Note: That is not counting interim Red Sox manager Joe Kerrigan from 2001 or interim Celtics head coach John Carroll from 2003-04.
Naturally, the next question for the Red Sox ought to be “Who is going to be their Claude Julien?”
There will be plenty of time to address that topic as Cherington tries to make like Chiarelli and rapidly reboot after a false start to his Boston rejuvenation project.
In the meantime, it is worth asking—of those to cross the city’s sports scene in recent memor ...
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