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 ...
Author of more books on the Red Sox than any other writer, Bill Nowlin has produced another one here. This is no dumbed-down version of Fenway Park history told in trivia form.
Jerry Coleman, a former Yankee rival and fellow fighter pilot, met Williams at the 1950 AllStar Game. He said he immediately admired Williams. “He went to the wall to make a catch and crashed into it.
Neal Elliott sells peanuts for Aramark at games. His father Hank was the public address announcer in 1948 (paid $20.83 per game). Neal's uncle Paul threw peanuts in the 1950s. Neal himself started when he turned fourteen, ...
This is a book for all of us. Larry Tye, author of SATCHEL: The Life and Times of an American Legend Glenn Stout has done the impossible: he has put an end to the seemingly bottomless genre that is Fenway Park books. We now need no more.
The book explores the incomparable features that define Fenway: See Manny Ramirez peer out of the green door by the manual scoreboard and Dwight Evans reach to pluck a would-be home run out of Williamsburg.
That book ran to over 600 pages - and I've kept updating my file ever since, adding another six seasons since then. This book is more manageable since I've limited it only to events at Fenway Park.
CHAPTER Wrapping up a quick series with the Rays—with three devastating losses —the Sox again hit the road, this time to Minnesota, where they won two in a row against the Twins to finally snap their losing streak at ten games.
Documents the baseball stadium's history through a decade-by-decade account, providing historical photographs and personal accounts of Boston Red Sox players, staff, sportswriters, broadcasters, and fans.
Told in alternating perspectives, this is the hilarious and touching story of their most excellent year, where these three friends discover love, themselves, and how a little magic and Mary Poppins can go a long way.