Fenway Fanatics: 50 Boston Red Sox Fans Tell Their Stories
- ISBN-10
- 0988350343
- ISBN-13
- 9780988350342
- Category
- Baseball fans
- Pages
- 301
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-06-01
- Author
- Greg Pearson
Description
So what is it about Red Sox fans? Rich and poor, old and young, famous and infamous, they hail from New England, of course, but also from Saskatchewan, Uzbekistan, Japan and the Ukraine.Author Greg Pearson has collected half a hundred of them who toldl their tales of the Bambino's curse, Bucky Dent, Bill Buckner and that history-making season: 2004.For these fans, the Red Sox are all tied up with family history, romance and the meaning of life.Obsessive? Of course. But these are true people stories, fascinating to read; people who share a common insanity
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