With Fenway Park turning 100 years old next year, you can count on a steady stream of publications, specials and documentaries on the history of the ballpark. I mentioned one a few weeks ago (Remembering Fenway Park) and today, another crossed my desk. Fenway Park:The Centennial by Saul Wisnia, features both a book and a … Continue reading Review (and Giveaway) of Fenway Park: The Centennial
Sure, yesterday was a big anniversary in Red Sox history, but today is another one. What were you doing 34 years ago tonight? If you can remember that far, (I can't) no doubt you were engrossed in a little baseball game that was taking place over at Fenway Park. The date was October 21st, 1975 … Continue reading Book Review – Game Six
Last week I posted an interview with Jerry Beach, the author of Fighting Words: The Media, The Red Sox and How Boston Finally Won It All. Beach had mentioned that he had written out a chapter on the New England Patriots and their relationship with the media, but that the chapter had been excluded from … Continue reading Fighting Words “Lost Chapter” on Patriots
Disclaimer - I'm quoted a number of times in this book. When I recently received my review copy of Fighting Words: The Media, The Red Sox and How Boston Finally Won It All by Jerry Beach, it was after a long period of anticipation. Beach and I had been in contact about this project for about … Continue reading Book Review – Fighting Words
When it comes to statistical analysis of football, no one does it better than Football Outsiders. For the past four years, in addition to their work on the internet, they've also published the Pro Football Prospectus. This year however, their publication is titled the Football Outsiders Almanac 2009. So what happened? From the introduction of … Continue reading Football Outsiders Almanac 2009 Interview With Aaron Schatz
Disclaimer - I'm quoted a few times in the pages of this book. It Was Never About the Babe: The Red Sox, Racism, Mismanagement, and the Curse of the Bambino When the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series and ended 86 years of heartache, something else came to an end as well. Dan Shaughnessy's … Continue reading Book Review – It Was Never About The Babe
I took the news of Bill Reynolds' new book, ’78: The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, And A Divided City (New York: New American Library, 2009, 320 pages, $24.95), with a heavy dose of ambivalence. After all, this was one of the most exciting seasons ever played and it’s maintained a Greek tragedy hold … Continue reading Bill Reynolds Takes Us Back To ’78
Bruce is on vacation this week With some time on my hands to finally just sit and read, I've packed up a few of the sports-related books that I've received from publishers in recent weeks and which I have been looking forward to getting a chance to really get into. Here are three of the books … Continue reading What I’m Reading On The Beach
http://rcm.amazon.com/e/cm?t=bostonsportsm-20&o=1&p=8&l=as1&asins=076033501X&fc1=000000&IS2=1<1=_blank&m=amazon&lc1=0000FF&bc1=000000&bg1=FFFFFF&f=ifr One of the books that has recently passed across my desk here at BSMW headquarters is Rebound: Basketball, Busing, Larry Bird and the Rebirth of Boston. Written by Boston Herald writer Michael Connelly ( who also writes the daily Connelly’s Top Ten blog for the Herald website) the book parallels the struggles of a city in … Continue reading Book Review: Rebound!
