three stolen bases in 1033 games. As a catcher, he compiled a .984 fielding percentage with 5274 putouts, 431 assists and 92 errors in 980 games. Gedman holds the rare status of making the American League All Star Team twice as a catcher in the 1980s, joining such legendary players as Lance Parrish, Carlton Fisk, Ted Simmons, and Terry Steinbach as the only players to accomplish this. Coaching In 2002, Gedman became a coach with the North Shore Spirit, a team in the independent Northeast League. He was also the Spirit's bench coach. He then managed the Worcester Tornadoes, in the Can-Am League, from 2005 through 2010. The Tornadoes won the Can-Am League title in their first year of existence. In his six years in Worcester, Gedman led the team to a 283–290 record, 10–6 in the postseason. On January 10, 2011, Gedman returned to organized baseball when he was named hitting coach for the Lowell Spinners, the Red Sox' Short Season-A affiliate in the New York–Penn League, returning to the Boston organization after a two-decade absence. In 2012, Gedman was promoted to Class A Salem, and switched to Double A Portland Sea Dogs in 2013. In 2015, he was named hitting coach of the AAA Pawtucket Red Sox, and moved with the team when they left Pawtucket for Worcester in 2021. Highlights Twice named an All-Star (1985–86) The Sporting News' AL Rookie of the Year (1981) Selected for the All-Star team by UPI and The Sporting News (1985) Caught Dennis Eckersley's one-hitter (September 26, 1980) Set two AL records for putouts in a game [20] and in consecutive games [36] (April 29–30, 1986) Hit for the cycle and drove in seven runs against the Blue Jays (September 18, 1985) Reached base in all five at-bats of historic game 5 of the 1986 American League Championship Series. This included a two-run home run in the second inning and a hit by pitch in the ninth inning that set up Dave Henderson's dramatic two-out home run. Personal life Rich Gedman met his future-wife Sherry Aselton in 1977, when both attended St. Peter-Marian High School in Worcester. Sherry went on to play softball and basketball at the University of Connecticut where she threw two no-hitters and as of 2011 still holds the second-lowest career ERA in program history (0.57). The couple married in 1982. The Gedmans have two sons, Michael and Matthew,