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The definitive one-volume history of the most fascinating franchise in baseball For a century now, the Boston Red Sox have meant many different things to many different people, eliciting elation, frustration, nostalgia, nausea, confidence, anger, bewilderment, love, and loss, often all at once. But no matter the ups and downs, in their long, storied history the Red Sox have always managed to provide us with one thing that is certain -- they are the most interesting team ever to have taken the field. RED SOX CENTURY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF RED SOX BASEBALL tells theRed Sox story in its entirety for the first time, from the team's inception in 1901 and its early peak in 1918, when it won its fifth and last World Series; through the glory years, which saw the rise of such greats as Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Teddy Ballgame, and Yaz and which witnessed the "Impossible Dream" of 1967 and near misses in 1975 and 1986; to the present, when the Sox are still chasing that elusive sixth world championship -- a championship that fate seems not to want them to have. In these pages, many a Red Sox myth is debunked, and many stories are told for the first time. © Did the Red Sox fix the first World Series game ever played? © What is the truth about Babe Ruth and Harry Frazee? © Did Johnny Pesky hold the ball? © Does Fenway Park have a future? © Will the Red Sox ever win a World Series again? Drawn from countless interviews and tireless research and illustrated with more than two hundred photographs, many never seen before, RED SOX CENTURY is far more than a picture book. Glenn Stout and Richard A. Johnson have written a gripping narrative history, filled with details so vivid and accurate and irony so sharp that you think you can't possibly bear to relive some of those past moments (but you're a Sox fan, so of course you do). Your season ticket to one hundred years of thrilling baseball, Red Sox Century is a comprehensive and always colorful history of a team that helped to define not only its city but its sport.

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PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company

ISBN-100395884179

ISBN-139780395884171

eBay Product ID (ePID)1720294

Product Key Features

Number of Pages480 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameRed Sox Century : the Definitive History of the World's Most Storied Franchise

Publication Year2000

SubjectBaseball / History, Baseball / General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSports & Recreation

AuthorRichard A. Johnson, Glenn Stout

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight61.6 Oz

Item Length10.5 in

Item Width9 in

Additional Product Features

LCCN00-026729

Dewey Edition21

ReviewsBlessed with stellar original essays from . . . topnotch baseball scribes and startling photographs, this highly readable coffee-table book is a must., "Magnificent . . . this is the book, the genuine article, a vademecum to get you through waiting for next year." -- Katherine Powers, From Cy Young to Pedro Martinez, this book has all that anyone would care to know about this accursed yet lovable franchise., "RED SOX CENTURY belongs right up there with Macbeth, Hamlet and other dynastic tragedies." -- Dick Schaap "RED SOX CENTURY serves as both a history of the team, and a tribute to the American game. You can read it straight through, or dip into it like well water on a hot day. In either case it richly repays your attention." -- Robert B. Parker, bestselling author of Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, and Family Honor "How can a Red Sox century, 100 years of Red Sox baseball be so bad, when RED SOX CENTURY: 100 YEARS OF RED SOX BASEBALL is so good?" -- Frank Deford, "RED SOX CENTURY belongs right up there with Macbeth, Hamlet and other dynastic tragedies." -- Dick Schaap "RED SOX CENTURY serves as both a history of the team, and a tribute to the American game. You can read it straight through, or dip into it like well water on a hot day. In either case it richly repays your attention." -- Robert B. Parker, bestselling author of Hush Money, Hugger Mugger, and Family Honor "How can a Red Sox century, 100 years of Red Sox baseball be so bad, when RED SOX CENTURY: 100 YEARS OF RED SOX BASEBALL is so good?" -- Frank Deford "Blessed with stellar original essays from . . . topnotch baseball scribes and startling photographs, this highly readable coffee-table book is a must." BarnesandNoble.com "Magnificent . . . this is the book, the genuine article, a vademecum to get you through waiting for next year." -- Katherine Powers Boston Globe "A beautiful, bountiful book . . . bound to become the definitive work on the Red Sox." Buffalo News "RED SOX CENTURY contains enough minutiae to settle 100 years of barroom bets." (Reuters) CNN Interactive "In baseball parlance, this four-in-one celebration of the Olde Towne Team's centennial is a grand slam." Boston Herald "From Cy Young to Pedro Martinez, this book has all that anyone would care to know about this accursed yet lovable franchise." Sports Illustrated "The ultimate gift for Red Sox fans." Publishers Weekly "The richness, the drama, the completeness of this book . . . sustain[s] the lonely fan through many a long winter's night . . ." Elysian Fields Quarterly, In baseball parlance, this four-in-one celebration of the Olde Towne Team's centennial is a grand slam.

Target AudienceTrade

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal796.357/64/0977461

Edition DescriptionTeacher's Edition

Lc Classification NumberGv875.B62s76 2000