The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Time Machine Book

by Martin Gitlin

Overview

The Ultimate Boston Red Sox Time Machine presents a timeline format that not only includes the Red Sox's greatest moments—including its nine World Series wins and individual achievements—but focuses also on some very unusual seasons and events, such as the refusal of the New York Yankees to go up against them in the 1904 World Series, the derivation of its name, and of course the famous Curse of the Bambino. There are dozens of impressive, wild, wacky and wonderful stories over the years regarding Red Sox history and Gitlin is the perfect person to write it with his trademark humor and thorough knowledge of Red Sox lore.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781493045846
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	01/24/2020
Pages:	208
Sales rank:	1,031,219
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.80(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

MARTIN GITLIN is a veteran author and sportswriter. He has had about 150 books published since 2006, including A Celebration of Animation: The 100 Greatest Cartoon Characters in Television History (Lyons Press, 2018) with Joe Wos. His Great American Cereal Book (Harry Abrams, 2012) soared to No. 1 in both the Americana and Breakfast Book categories on Amazon.com immediately upon release and remained there for several months while his Powerful Moments in Sports: The Most Significant Sporting Events in American History earned critical acclaim. Gitlin won more than 45 awards as a sports journalist from 1991 to 2002, including first place for general excellence from The Associated Press for his coverage of the Indians-Braves World Series in 1995. AP also selected him as one of the top four feature writers in Ohio. Gitlin lives in North Olmsted, Ohio.

Table of Contents

Introduction vii

Chapter 1 Super Cy and the First Series Champs 1

Chapter 2 Fenway and the Monstah 11

Chapter 3 The Annual Champs 19

Chapter 4 Creating the Curse 29

Chapter 5 The Morass 35

Chapter 6 The Yawkey Way 41

Chapter 7 The Growth of the Splendid Splinter 50

Chapter 8 The Championship, the Choice, and the Choke 59

Chapter 9 Pushing for Pumpsie 69

Chapter 10 Yaz and the Impossible Dream 75

Chapter 11 The Tragic Tale of Tony C 87

Chapter 12 A Great Pair of New Sox 94

Chapter 13 The So-Called Spaceman 104

Chapter 14 Bucky Freaking Dent and the Pain of '78 110

Chapter 15 Rocket Roger 118

Chapter 16 Buckner's Boo-Boo 127

Chapter 17 Ups and Downs with Nomar and Mo 136

Chapter 18 A Little Big Mistake 145

Chapter 19 Big Papi and the Big Comeback 155

Chapter 20 Manny Being Manny 163

Chapter 21 Chicken and Championships 170

Chapter 22 Red Sox Nation 181

Notes 185

Other Sources 195