Bob Zupcic, High-Five - 880

Be sure and check out the revisited Bob Zupcic feature from February 2011: Bob Zupcic, Good Opportunity Bub Zupcic rounded the bases Sept. 20, 1991, having hit his first major league home run in a rout of the Yankees. He was met on the basepaths by an excited fan and Zupcic went with it. "He was there," Zupcic said in the New York Times story on the game, "so I gave him a high-five." Bob Zupcic didn't hit many major league home runs, he hit seven in parts of four major league seasons, but the few he did hit were memorable. Aside from the high-five to the fan, that first home run came on the tail end of back-to-back shots , the first hit by fellow 1990 CMC setter Phil Plantier. They were also hit on the first to pitches thrown by another fellow CMC setter Dave Eiland. Two other Zupcic home runs in 1992 were grand slams , both proving the difference in the ball games. Zupcic debuted with the Red Sox as a September call up in 1991. That break not only got him in...