The Boys of October : How the 1975 Boston Red Sox Embodied Baseball's Ideals--and Restored Our Spirits - Softcover

Hornig, Doug

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0071431934 ISBN 13: 9780071431934

Publisher: McGraw-Hill, 2004

Synopsis

An inspiring look at the 1975 World Series, The Boys of October takes the reader back to those 12 exhilarating days in 1975, when the ragtag Boys from Beantown faced Cincinnati's "Big Red Machine." Against the backdrop of a hot summer during turbulent times, this compelling book celebrates baseball and the heroes who made it what it is.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Title: The Boys of October

Author: Hornig

ISBN: 0071431934

Category: Sports/Baseball

Trim Size: 6 x 9

UPC: 639785385141

Price: $14.95

[category] Sports/Baseball

"A replay of another sort, a psalm, really, to the '75 Red Sox. [It] transcend[s] the box-score mentality of so much sportswriting. . . . very fine."

--The New York Times Book Review

In 1975, Americans needed something to cheer for, something that would shake them out of their united melancholy. The Vietnam War had divided them, a bad economy had broken them down, and Nixon had betrayed them; even baseball had seemed to lose its hold over them. That "something" came in the fall--a World Series masterpiece between the seemingly unbeatable Cincinnati Reds and the underdog Boston Red Sox. A classic David versus Goliath matchup, the seven championship games thrilled a nation with the on-field heroics and never-say-die attitude.

In The Boys of October, lifelong Red Sox fan Doug Hornig skillfully weaves together his first-person interviews with members of the '75 Sox and exciting play-by-play of the Series' most memorable moments with a moving memoir of his relationship with his favorite uncle, a fellow Sox devotee and retired baseball player. Hornig's lyrical prose takes us back to that exhilarating autumn, when Carl Yastrzemski, Carlton Fisk, Luis Tiant, and the ragtag Boys from Beantown faced Cincinnati's Pete Rose, Joe Morgan, Johnny Bench, and the rest of the indomitable "Big Red Machine" in an epic seven-game struggle that is still widely regarded as the greatest ever played.

Doug Hornig has published seven suspense novels, one of which was nominated for an Edgar. He has also written articles for such publications as Playboy, BusinessWeek, The Writer, and Gadfly. A native New Englander, he still follows the Sox from his home in Afton, Virginia.

About the Author:

Doug Horning (Afton, VA) has written seven suspense novels, one of which was nominated for an Edgar. He has also written articles for the Charlottesville Daily Progress and the Virginian-Pilot.

About this edition

• Publisher: McGraw-Hill
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0071431934
• ISBN 13: 9780071431934
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 272