6/ In an under-told account, Joan Ryan relays the mutiny Dustin Pedroia and a half-dozen players pulled in the fourth game of the 2013 World Series when their teammate Jonny Gomes’ statistics dropped him from the lineup. Manager John Farrell angrily acceded to their insubordination “Jonny Gomes is playing” they’d told him.

"Numbers that time of year are irrelevant" Pedroia told Ryan.

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