The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Time Machine Book

The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Time Machine Book
Author: Martin Gitlin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2020-01-24
Genre: 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.

Faithful

Faithful
Author: Stewart O'Nan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 465
Release: 2005-09-06
Genre: 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.

Fenway Park: The Centennial

Fenway Park: The Centennial
Author: Saul Wisnia
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011-09-13
Genre: 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

The Boston Red Sox All-Time All-Stars

The Boston Red Sox All-Time All-Stars
Author: Jeffrey Lyons
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2021-05-14
Genre: 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.

Miracle at Fenway

Miracle at Fenway
Author: Saul Wisnia
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 316
Release: 2014-07-15
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 125003163X

"Hundreds of articles and several books were written in the immediate aftermath of the [Boston Red Sox] thrilling '04 season, but 10 years have passed and [this book] has a fresh perspective, including the type of analysis and insight that comes with a decade of reflection ... Saul Wisnia has cultivated relationships with people at every level of the Sox organization. From the players to the fans to the upper echelons of team management, he has their accounts of 2004 as they saw it and as they remember it today, now that the memories have had time to take root and blossom"--

Dynasty

Dynasty
Author: Tony Massarotti
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 336
Release: 2008-04
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 9780312385675

A unique look at the inner workings of a major league baseball team and how the Red Sox went from perennial losers to baseball's next dynasty. When the Boston Red Sox defeated the Colorado Rockies in the 2007 World Series, they did more than win their second world championship in four seasons---they changed forever the identity of a franchise once defined by its spectacular failures. If winning the 2004 World Series permanently buried Boston’s tragic past, the team’s 2007 championship reinforced its promising future while changing the culture, mentality, and mind-set of the Red Sox and their followers. But the team's meteoric rise was not without controversy, and behind-the-scene clashes and infighting within the organization are revealed here in detail for the first time: The wildly popular pitcher Pedro Martinez and outfield sensation Johnny Damon were allowed to depart as free agents, and the Red Sox had to endure the temporary resignation of General Manager Theo Epstein. Author Tony Massarotti has been covering the Red Sox since the 1991 season and in Dynasty, Massarotti provides an in-depth and probing look at how the Red Sox became the most successful franchise in baseball.

I Love the Red Sox/I Hate the Yankees

I Love the Red Sox/I Hate the Yankees
Author: Jon Chattman
Publisher: Triumph Books
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2012-03
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1617496308

Presented in a unique reversible-book format, I Love the Red Sox/I Hate the Yankees is the ultimate Red Sox fan guide to baseball s most celebrated and storied rivalry. Full of interesting trivia, hilarious history, and inside scoops, the book relates the fantastic stories of legendary Red Sox managers and star players, including Ted Williams, Jim Rice, and David Ortiz, as well as the numerous villains who have donned the pinstripes over the years. Like two books in one, this completely biased account of the rivalry proclaims the irrefutable reasons to cheer the Red Sox and boo the Yankees and shows that there really is no fine line between love and hate."

Bums

Bums
Author: Peter Golenbock
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 562
Release: 2010-01-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 0486477355

It's been over 50 years since they moved to Los Angeles, but the Brooklyn Dodgers remain ingrained in the fabric of our national pastime. Golenbock's oral history of these "lovable losers" tells the team's tale through the words of Pee Wee Reese, Leo Durocher, Duke Snider, and other Brooklyn greats.

The Ultimate New York Mets Time Machine Book

The Ultimate New York Mets Time Machine Book
Author: Martin Gitlin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2021-04-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 149305533X

From their ignominious 40-120 debut in 1962, to the "Miracle Mets" of the shocking 1969 season, to the teams of Darryl Strawberry, David Wright, and Jacob deGrom, the New York Mets have in nearly sixty years become the city's other beloved baseball franchise, with its fan base stretching well beyond the New York suburbs. The Mets' rich history is told in over two dozen engaging chapters celebrating the highlights, as well as the low lights, of baseball's most lovable team--win or lose.

The Ultimate New York Yankees Time Machine Book

The Ultimate New York Yankees Time Machine Book
Author: Martin Gitlin
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2022-07-01
Genre: Sports & Recreation
ISBN: 1493068024

This book covers the entirety of franchise history, from their birth and struggles as the Highlanders to the bludgeoning bats of Murderer’s Row and the first Yankees dynasty to the juggernauts of the 1940s, 1950s and early 1960s, to the anomalous mediocrity that followed, to the championships and circus of the Steinbrenner, Jackson and Billy Martin era to, the run of crowns two decades later, to the years of frustration and missed opportunity through the second decade of the twenty-first century. However, how to make a book exceptional when champonships are routine, and scores of a team’s player are imortal? Emphasize a variety of players, teams, moments, events and contributors that made the Yankees unique in the annals of American sport, which this book ably does.