Red Sox Century

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Summary: Extraordinary
Review: Short and sweet: an awesome book. Great pictures, great detailed articles. More than just the same tired rehashing of baseball stories. Was a present for a huge Sox fan who knows just abuot everything in baseball history--he called me every day to discuss the new stories... I wanted to say enough already and let me read it when you are done. A can't miss baseball book, not something that you can say everyday.

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Summary: Awesome!
Review: Short and sweet: an awesome book. Great pictures, great detailed articles. More than just the same tired rehashing of baseball stories. Was a present for a huge Sox fan who knows just abuot everything in baseball history--he called me every day to discuss the new stories... I wanted to say enough already and let me read it when you are done. A can't miss baseball book, not something that you can say everyday.

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Summary: What a century . . .
Review: Smashing! That one word does not do justice to Red Sox Century, but it is a beginning. This beautifully wrought volume tells the tragi-comic story of the Boston Red Sox in flowing prose and superb photographs. I don't judge books by their covers...instead I leaf through the index. This detailed and COMPELLING book has an 18 page index. How can you not love this book?!?! Clearly the authors, Johnson and Stout, have a great respect and enduring love not only for the Boston Red Sox, but for all of baseball. WELL DONE!!!

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Summary: Phenomenal!
Review: Stout and Johnson do a remarkable job of chronicaling the most interesting, tragic and misunderstood franchise in baseball history. I have only been a baseball fan since the early 60's but, if the entire book is written with the authenticity of the text covering that era, I can imagine what it must have been like to live through the Williams years, the championships of the teens etc. The authors hit on all the significant exhiliarating and controversial moments of the Bosox with complete candor and truth. This is easily the best book I have ever read concerning the history of a Boston sports team.

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Summary: Phenomenal!
Review: Stout and Johnson do a remarkable job of chronicaling the most interesting, tragic and misunderstood franchise in baseball history. I have only been a baseball fan since the early 60's but, if the entire book is written with the authenticity of the text covering that era, I can imagine what it must have been like to live through the Williams years, the championships of the teens etc. The authors hit on all the significant exhiliarating and controversial moments of the Bosox with complete candor and truth. This is easily the best book I have ever read concerning the history of a Boston sports team.

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Summary: goofy goes wild
Review: The Red Sox,like the Cubs, are an inept franchise. Virulently anti black for many years. Focused on Ted Williams, who couldn't play the field. So they have lost and lost. Yawn, yawn. But New England neurotics embrace the team. Aside from that, the writing here is amateurish compared to that of Ed Linn in a far better Red Sox book, "The Great Rivalry."

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Summary: The best and most complete history of Red Sox baseball
Review: The writing is superb, attention to detail inspiring. If you're a Red Sox fan, you need to read this book.

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Summary: Definitive History of the Red Sox
Review: This book has everything you need to know about the history of the Boston Red Sox,one of baseball's greatest franchises. It is absolutely required reading for any Red Sox fan and highly recomended for any serious baseball fan. Well-written, well-organized, insightful and respectful without being overly reverential, this is a superb book.

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Summary: Red Sox Rocks
Review: This is a very exciting book for any Red Sox fan, young and old. I was born to a Yankee fan dad and a Red Sox fan mom in Waterbury, Connecticut. Interesting household to say the least, but there was something about the Red Sox that won my heart. Not sure if it was the mystique of seeing Yaz in stand in front of the Green Monster, or the interesting pitching style of Louis Tion (I'm sure I spelled that wrong - but if you saw him pitch, you'd remember it!). It's great to see a book commemorating such a wonderful organization and I'm proud to be a die-hard fan to this day. Thank you.

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Summary: Fact vs Fiction
Review: This is THE definitive Red Sox history. It tells the whole story just as it happened. Of course, for Red Sox fans that is both good and bad. If you want a happier ending, read Bill Lee's The Little Red Sox Book, which changes Red Sox history and provides dozens of happy endings, including Ted Williams killing Hitler with a line drive, Babe staying in Boston and Jackie Robinson joining the Red Sox. I suggest you read them both...one to put you out on the ledge and the other to coax you back in.