New lefty’s ‘long journey’ to Red Sox included construction, 4-year retirement

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New lefty’s ‘long journey’ to Red Sox included construction, 4-year retirement

PITTSBURGH — When Cam Booser enters his first game with the Red Sox in the coming days, it’ll mark the first time in nearly 77 years that a player age 31 or older has made his major league debut with the club (excluding Japanese players). It’s fair to wonder if anyone who has debuted for the Red Sox in the last eight decades has arrived with as wild of a backstory as Booser’s.