Here are four points:
1. Dr. Pappas was 84 years old.
2. He joined the Red Sox for the season of 1978 as a team physician. He eventually became part-owner of the team.
3. He was the first chairman of the department of orthopedics at the University of Massachusetts Medical School in Worcester.
4. In 2011, he received the Massachusetts Medical Society’s Lifetime Achievement Award.
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