Fenway: A Biography in Words and Pictures - Softcover

Shaughnessy, Dan

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9780618057092: Fenway: A Biography in Words and Pictures

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0618057099 ISBN 13: 9780618057092

Publisher: Mariner Books, 2000

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A best-selling author and Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer team up to create a beautiful visual homage to the most storied stadium in baseball. Reprint.

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A religious shrine or a giant pinball machine? Museum or amusement park? Historical or hysterical? These are just some of the puzzlers posed by Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaugnessy in this lovely homage to the second oldest, single most complex ballpark in the majors. The answers are debatable. What remains absolute are the images Boston's Fenway Park has burned into the imaginations of the faithful and the faithless since the day it opened, a short week after the Titanic sank.

Shaugnessy and photographer Stan Grossfeld combine to offer an often-spectacular visual tribute that looks both back in time and into the heart of all the park's odd nooks, crannies, shadows, and hiding places. They go inside the hand-operated scoreboard on the fabled Green Monster. There's even a lovely picture of a pastoral Fenway covered in snow. Shaughnessy's text--"When they raze Fenway, it'll be like cutting down an old tree. Count the rings. There's one for each celebration and heartache suffered by Red Sox fans"--is affectionate and quite personal. He adds to it with a series of short, lyrical reminiscences from those who've mused about the field-- David Halberstam, Bob Costas, Stephen King, and Doris Kearns Goodwin--and those who've played on it: Don Zimmer, Bucky Dent, Dennis Eckersley, and Carl Yastrzemski. Fittingly, Ted Williams pens the foreward. The result of the amalgamation is an altogether splendid celebration of a landmark about to be pushed by progress into memory. --Jeff Silverman

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BOSTON GLOBE columnist Dan Shaughnessy is the author of the best-selling CURSE OF THE BAMBINO as well as AT FENWAY: DISPATCHES FROM RED SOX NATION and SEEING RED: THE RED AUERBACH STORY. Stan Grossfeld is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for the BOSTON GLOBE. His books include EYES OF THE GLOBE: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE BOSTON GLOBE, NANTUCKET: THE OTHER SEASON, THE WHISPER OF STARS: A SIBERIAN JOURNEY, and TWO ON THE RIVER.

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