The crimes, in order of perp for those not steeped in Red Sox baseball:
--the high throw enabling Enos Slaughter's mad dash and leaving Johnny Pesky with a misleading image of holding the ball;
--starting Denny Galehouse instead of Mel Parnell, not to mention lifting Ellis Kinder in Yankee Stadium;
--the stumble rounding third that helped kill a rally and possibly cost a Red Sox pennant;
--the eephus pitch Tony Perez drilled into the ether;
--lifting Jim Willoughby a hitter or three too prematurely;
--starting Bobby (This Kid Has Ice Water In His Veins) Sprowl over Luis Tiant, enabling the finish of the Boston Massacre;
--throwing the pitch that had B.F. Dent's name on it;
--committing the passed ball that was ruled, wrongly, a wild pitch, allowing the tying run to score ahead of
--Mookie Wilson and the croquet shot heard 'round the world; and,
--committing to Pedro Martinez's heart without bothering to check whether the arm had equal life left.
Good thing Dame Coakley isn't running in Illinois. She'd probably try to make a case that Charley Root (he threw the three pitches Babe Ruth bombed out of Wrigley Field, including the alleged called shot), Jolly Cholly Grimm (he was fool enough to let Hank Borowy---still the last known Cub to win a World Series game---start Game Seven, 1945, on one day's rest, rather than let a well-rested Hy Vandenburg out of his doghouse with a real shot at winning the Series), Leo Durocher (who mismanaged the 1969 Cubs out of a National League East they could have won just as the Miracle Mets began reheating in earnest), Leon Durham (he telegraphed poor Bill Buckner in the 1984 National League Championship Series), Don Zimmer, Steve Bartman, and Alex Gonzalez (he let the double play ball bounce off his chest, the real opening to the Marlins' feeding frenzy in 2003) were White Sox fans.
I just hope Croakley is dumb enough to say something bad about Carl Yastrzemski.
If she says something bad about Yaz then it is all over.