Author : Steven Goldman
Publisher : Workman Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 32,88 MB
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780761140184
An account of the 2004 winning season of the Red Sox debunks popular myths and provides statistics and commentary on players and teams to explain how baseball games are won.
Author : Bill Nowlin
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 33,92 MB
Release : 2012-03-21
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1613210191
Founded in 1901, the Boston Red Sox have been making history for over a century. The passion of the players, the tragedy and triumph of the “Bambino’s Curse”—the Boston spirit comes alive in this collection of stories and anecdotes from Fenway Park. Any baseball fan will ?nd this book irresistible.
Author : Brad M. Epstein
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 39,83 MB
Release : 2009-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781607300052
"The ultimate alphabet book for every young Red Sox fan"--Page 4 of cover
Author : Martin Gitlin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,88 MB
Release : 2020-01-24
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1493045857
The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Red Sox's greatest moments—including its nine World Series wins and individual achievements—but focuses also on some very unusual seasons and events, such as the refusal of the New York Yankees to go up against them in the 1904 World Series, the derivation of its name, and of course the famous Curse of the Bambino. There are dozens of impressive, wild, wacky and wonderful stories over the years regarding Red Sox history and Gitlin is the perfect person to write it with his trademark humor and thorough knowledge of Red Sox lore.
Author : Bill Lee
Publisher : Triumph Books (IL)
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,30 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Humor
ISBN :
Inspired by Chairman Mao's infamous Little Red Book, "Spaceman" Bill Lee offers an off-the-wall revisionist history of baseball's most colorful franchise, the Boston Red Sox. In addition to rewriting Red Sox history, Lee offers up his unique views on today's and yesteryear's game. With this hilarious take on Red Sox history, the Spaceman proves he's the true MVP in helping the Red Sox win the 2004 World Series and lift the Curse of the Bambino.
Author : Saul Wisnia
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,77 MB
Release : 2011-09-13
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9780312642747
Honoring the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park, this is a nostalgic and reverent look at America's # 1 baseball shrine--the national treasure that has been home to more than 600 straight sellouts and some of baseball's greatest games and players over the last century Relive 100 years of memories in Fenway Park with this monumental book-with an original DVD documentary hosted by Carlton Fisk. With supreme photography, a wealth of memorabilia, and original commentary by three generations of Boston Red Sox players and fans, this book celebrates the stadium in style. It also includes treasures from the Sports Museum of New England—rarely seen photographs and artifacts—that enhance the nostalgic experience. FENWAY PARK: THE CENTENNIAL is a visually stunning and thoroughly engaging celebration of this great monument and its 100 year history. Packed with original essays, commentary and history, this landmark book includes sections on: • The inception, construction, and early years of Fenway Park • Detailed looks at Red Sox legends from Babe Ruth and Ted Williams to Pedro Martinez and David Ortiz • The greatest moments of the Green Monster, Fenway's most famous feature • A trip inside the Monster's manually operated scoreboard • Fenway fans and their love affair with the legendary stadium through the years • Unforgettable seasons, including the Impossible Dream team and the 2004 World Series champs
Author : Stewart O'Nan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 465 pages
File Size : 10,20 MB
Release : 2005-09-06
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0743267532
Now in paperback, two fiercely avid Red Sox fans document one of the most eagerly anticipated baseball seasons of all time. From devoted fans O'Nan and King comes this unique chronicle of one baseball team's journey from spring training to post-season play.
Author : Terry Francona
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0547928173
Francona explores his tenure in Boston, examining how the beleaguered Red Sox reached incredible highs and equally incredible lows under his management, including several championship victories.
Author : Jeffrey Lyons
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 23,70 MB
Release : 2021-05-14
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 1493060775
Let’s say you’re the manager of one of the oldest and most beloved franchises in Major League baseball, with every past and current player available in the dugout. Game time is approaching and the ump needs your line-up card. Who’s your starting pitcher? Three-hundred-game-winner Lefty Grove, lights-out Pedro Martinez, fireballer Roger Clemens, or the Sox’s first Cy Young winner Jim Lonborg? Is Carlton Fisk behind the plate or Jason Varitek? Who’ll bat clean-up, Ted Williams or David Ortiz? Combining statistical analysis, common sense, and a host of intangibles, Jeffrey Lyons constructs an all-time All-Star Red Sox line-up for the ages. Agree with his choices or not, you’ll learn all there is to know about the men who played for and managed the BoSox.
Author : John Snyder
Publisher : Clerisy Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2006
Category :
ISBN : 9781578602537
From the series that created the prize-winning Redleg Journal and the bestselling Cubs Journal comes the definitive, in-depth chronicle of one of the most beloved franchises in major league baseball, covering every season from 1901 through 2005. Red Sox Journal is the ultimate Red Sox fan's resource. Dividing the team's history into decades, years, and even days, the book offers hitting and pitching highlights, team and player stats, interesting and unusual facts -- much more than just a box score. Red Sox Journal is loaded with photos, sidebars, statistics, and anecdotes, as well as lists of all-time hitting and pitching leaders, all-decade all-star teams, and even the all-time roster and uniform numbers. In short, there's so much information and trivia contained here that baseball fans will have their hands full well beyond the season of America's favorite game.
