Robert Redford, the iconic actor known for movies that include "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "The Sting," died Tuesday at 89 years old. Two decades ago, Redford was in Massachusetts, and told WBZ-TV his Boston Red Sox fandom ahead of his first trip to Fenway Park.

According to Cindi Berger, CEO of the publicity firm Rogers & Cowan PMK, Redford died Tuesday at his home in Utah. Berger confirmed his death to CBS News.

Redford became a star in the late 1960s, and that stardom continued to rise with various lead roles throughout the 1970s and 1980s.

That included the 1984 film "The Natural," a baseball movie where Redford played the role of Roy Hobbs. The movie, based on the 1952 novel by Bernard Malamud, was not designed to mirror actual events.

But Redford turned to a Red

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