Fenway
: A Biography in Words and Pictures
by Dan Shaughnessy (Author)
(Hardcover - April 1999)
Fenway In Your Pocket: The Red Sox Fan's Guide to Fenway Park
by Kevin T. Dame, Rioji Yoshida
Listed under Sports Stadiums
Red
Sox Century
by Glenn Stout, et al
Hardcover - 480 pages (September 15, 2000)
Houghton Mifflin Co (Pap); ISBN: 0395884179 |
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At
Fenway : Dispatches from Red Sox Nation
Dan Shaughnessy
Seeing baseball played at Fenway is an experience like no other for
Red Sox fans and rivals alike because the park reminds us of what baseball
used to be. Fenway may not offer fans the best seats or even adequate parking,
but when game-goers walk through the park's gate, the smell of hotdogs
and roasted peanuts, the sight of Fenway's brilliant green grass and the
roar of the Fenway faithful overwhelms the most jaded of baseball enthusiasts,
even Yankee fans. Amazon.com
Paperback / Published 1997
Summer of '49
by David Halberstam
Listed under Baseball History
The
Teammates
by David Halberstam
As baseball legend Ted Williams lay dying in Florida, his old Boston
Red Sox teammates Johnny Pesky and Dom DiMaggio piled into a car and drove
1,300 miles to see their friend. Another member of the close-knit group,
Bobby Doerr, remained in Oregon to tend to his wife who had suffered a
stroke. Besides providing a poignant travelogue of the elderly Pesky and
DiMaggio's trip, David Halberstam's The Teammates goes back in time to
profile the men as young ballplayers. Although it is enlightening to learn
about Doerr, Pesky, and DiMaggio, the leader of the group and star of the
book is Williams. Halberstam portrays the notoriously moody and difficult
Williams as a complex man: driven by a rough childhood and a fiercely competitive
nature to become perhaps the greatest pure hitter of all time while also
being a magnetic personality and loving friend. While there is nothing
exceptionally unusual about old men who have stayed friends (plenty of
people stay friends, after all), baseball gives this particular relationship
a unique makeup. Unlike most friendships, that of Williams, Doerr, Pesky,
and DiMaggio was viewed all summer long by hooting, hollering Red Sox fans.
As such, their bond is forged both of individual accomplishment, win-loss
records, numerous road trips, and, since they played for the Red Sox, annual
doses of disappointment. Halberstam, author of Summer of '49 and October
1964 is the ideal writer to tell two equally intriguing stories, both rich
in America's pastime. Although he occasionally drops himself into the narrative,
one expects that of Halberstam and gladly accepts it in exchange for the
highly readable exposition infused with poetic majesty that has become
his trademark. --John Moe - Amazon.com
Hardcover from Hyperion Press
Book Published: May, 2003
Shut
Out: A Story of Race and Baseball in Boston
by Howard Bryant
(Hardcover - September 2002)
The
Boston Red Sox : 100 Years -- The Official Retrospective
by The Sporting News (Editor)
(Hardcover)
Lightning
in a Bottle: The Sox of '67
by Herbert F. Crehan, James W. Ryan (Contributor)
(Hardcover - January 1992)
Our
House: A Tribute to Fenway Park
by Curt Smith, George H. W. Bush
(Hardcover - May 1999)
Boston
Red Sox (America's Game)
by Bob Italia
(School & Library Binding - June 1997)
1918
: Babe Ruth and the World Champion Boston Red Sox
by Allan Wood
(Paperback - December 2000)
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