Chris Radil

#33 - C (profile)

Chris would probably prefer to be considered a spectator, rather than an active player on the DRS roster. However, for someone who simply comes out to games to take in the action, she’s sure managed to get her name scribbled on the line-up card an awful lot.

Chris was a devoted fan of the old Market Street Maulers teams in the late-1980s and early-1990s. Devotedly, she would show up with her lawn chair, set up shop in the shade, and watch the games. But during the final few years of the Maulers’ existence, the club had an extremely difficult time fielding a team of ten players. So when Chris made the mistake of actually arriving at the field, she was quickly persuaded (forced) into playing.

Then with the demise of the Maulers’ franchise and the birth of Team inDRStructible, Chris found a new team for which to buy her ‘season tickets.’ Again, she became a fixture on the sidelines watching the games from her lawn chair. And again, she would soon find herself pressured into participating in games. The taxmen didn’t have the same personnel issues as the old Maulers – they didn’t need Chris in order to field a team of ten, they simply wanted her to play to allow players a chance to come out of the game for a breather.

She first played for the taxmen in the 1998 Cove Cup. It was a very hot day, and by the end of the third game, Marjorie (McCoy) Terry was asking to come out. With no one on the bench, Chris stepped up and played the final innings of the game. Now some several years later, Chris has racked up a total of 59 games played, all at catcher.

Never being much of a baseball fan, she got her first taste of MLB action when she attended the team’s Bustrip to Fenway Park in 1999. She’s been a die-hard member of Red Sox Nation ever since. In fact, her love of the Sox, and the fact she plays catcher, led her to choose #33 as her uniform number, in honor of her favorite player, Jason Varitek.