I’m A Functional Alcoholic and I’m A Paramedic, By The Grace Of God And My Praying Wife And Praying Kids, I Got Sober From Alcohol At Age 38, I Been Sober Since July 21st Of 2014, I have been Sober From Alcohol 6Years and Some Months and Some Days

Always loved him especially in the late 70s when he was with the Boston Redsox

Way to go Eck for being honest about your addiction. God bless you. It takes tremendous courage to go through what you did.

One of the greatest pitchers of all time loved watching him

I grew up in Fremont , Dennis's younger Sister & I were good friends, he was a special athlete .

What a great story. All his great sports highlights balanced with the human side, yet without cheap sensationalism. I knew him for years in his hometown of Fremont. He was always a nice and genuine guy. Glad he made it through so well.

4 years Sober this coming May 16,2020...Your staying sober will be the greatest pitch in your arsenal..Your greatest gift received and given to those you love..God Bless you DE..You are among the greatest "Firemen" all time..

One of my first and favorite baseball memories is Dave Concepcion hitting a homerun off Eckersley in the all star game. I loved it because I am a Reds fan and Concepcion was my favorite player but I always had respect for Eckersley

a thing of beauty watching Eck close a game

I never knew what he went through. What a winner!

My uncle was Eck's dentist in Fremont as a kid. My uncle would leave his office just to go watch Eck pitch as a little leaguer. He said Eck was a man among boys. RIP Uncle Jack.

Congratulations Your Sobriety Dennis, I made 6Years Sober From Alcohol On July 21st Of 2020, I did the 12 steps of A.A. with my sponsor and my Sobriety got better, But I got Sober From Alcohol by praying 🙏🏿 and yelling out to God, And My First day Sober was July 21st Of 2014

SportCentury was a great show, always remember that music and Fowlers voice.

As a New Englander, I remember the Eck while he was with the Red Sox...always great to watch the high kick sidearm delivery...great respect for him...hard worker who loved the game...he was his worst enemy but never disrespected the game...wish you and your family the best Eck!

The man.

September 16, 2018: In spite of life's challenges, you became a winner. Great player!

Eck is the only pitcher in Major League history to have 100 complete games and over 100 saves.

To this day when I think of relief pitchers I think of Eckersley. He was great.

I have his autograph along with the other 1975 Cleveland Indians I got from my dad's cousin Fritz who pitched for the Indians that year.

I remember my uncle(rip) who played catcher/QB at Richmond HS during Ecks time in HS. He and Willie McGee played against Ecks HS and even back then..he was a dominant pitcher.

My all time favorite ball player...

What a trade by the A’s!

Great pitcher

He calls a fun and great game from the booth for Boston. Eck is enjoyable to listen to.. cheese , moss etc .. he's a cackle.

Met him last night at Polar Park. Nice guy.

Remember listening to his no hitter as a kid, with my brother. Talked to Eck about it many times. Good guy

The toughest SOB I ever saw with the game on the line was Dennis Eckersley. I say that with the utmost respect.

Thank you ESPN 🥲

I grew up here in Boston, and we are so proud and fortunate to have the Eck calling our games from the booth. Dennis has the perfect combination to be where he is. He's got a great sense of humor, he's got the looks, and most importantly, he's got that great baseball knowledge. We have a great team of color analysts for the Red Sox on our NESN baseball station. Besides the Eck, we've got the scooter, ex-Red Sox 2nd baseman Jerry Remy. We also have ex-Sox slugger and Hall of Famer, Jim Rice. Ex-Sox knuckleballer Tim Wakefield, and ex-Sox player and Fox colorman Steve Lyons. Well, it's Friday and the All-Star break was Tuesday. Time for the second half to begin. And if it's anything like the first half, some fun we're going to have here in Boston. The Red Sox are leading the Major Leagues with a record of 68-30. Their best first half since 1949. Rightfielder Mookie Betts is leading the Majors with a .359 batting average. He also has 23 home runs, and 51 RBI. Designated Hitter J D. Martinez is leading the Majors with 29 home runs and 80 RBI's.The Sox have four starting pitchers with at least 10 wins. Including ace Chris Sale who is 10-4, (4th) with a 2.23 ERA, (1st ) and 188 strikeouts (1st).

A perpetual strike throwing machine

Since Eck retired from the NESN booth after the 2022 season and with Jerry Remy's passing prior to that, watching Red Sox games just isn't the same. Even when the Sox were bad, the broadcasts were always entertaining.

Grande entre los Grandes en el Universo , de por vida .Bendiciones para el ,11;32PM, 10/2/2018/,Raleigh,NC.

nice story!

Love Eck, Go Red Sox!!

Born the same day and same year as Stevie Ray Vaughan

I got to interview Eck--he was always a favorite. The feat that gets glossed over in this show is the 21 and 2/3 consecutive hitless innings he pitched in '77, with the no-hitter sandwiched in the middle of that stretch. Only Cy Young strung together more such innings in MLB history. Yeah--THAT Cy Young. Think about it--if a guy goes 21 or so SCORELESS innings now it's a pretty big deal, let alone hitless.

I wish Eckersley would have been that good when he was a member of the Chicago Cubs.

Dig this: ln the opening highlights of this story, as Eck's story begins, it shows Kirk Gibson hitting a homerun. That was game 1 of the 1988 World Series. Dodgers vs Oakland A's. He hit it off Dennis to end and win the game. That's when and where Dennis Eckersly created and coined the phrase 'Walk Off Homerun'.

I never realized Eck coined 'walkoff' but that totally tracks

Eck !! ⚾️🔥

Man…. Just 3 more W W W’s & 10 more Saves To officially get to 200 W’s & 400 Saves That would have been Awesome Still an obviously Great Career That got Eck into Cooperstown Cy Young MVP 3 Straight World Series & 💍

the Indians of 77 were awful and eck had an awesome year like curt schilling with the Phillies when he pitched great but more often went just over 500 in winning percentage. the no hitter against frank tananna of the angels I listened to on a car radio at the age of ten. my favourite the next twenty odd years!!!!!

Months without major league baseball suck

He looks like the magician Doug Henning

Eck was the greatest closer of all time

Not many people have integrity. Eck has it. Beautiful person who shows how you get through shit no matter what!!

im an Eckersley

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Eck > Mo

There are few things more enjoyable than watching old ball players whine about opponents not obeying the "unwritten rules" of the game. So what if Eck pointed at guys after striking them out? So what if a young guy flips his bat after a home run? That stuff makes the game sooooo much more entertaining. You don't want some guy to flip his bat? Then strike him out! Problem solved. Eck was one of a kind.

World's thickest eyebrows: 13:13

John jones went to rehab for 1 day..bum