The Red Sox Fan Handbook - Softcover

Grossman, Leigh

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1579401104 ISBN 13: 9781579401108

Publisher: Rounder Records Group, 2005

Synopsis

Containing everything from crucial stats to tips on restaurants and Fenway-area parking, this is an essential reference book for Sox fans new and old.

About this title

From the Author:

What made me come up with the idea for this book? The Red Sox Fan Handbook is the book I wish I'd had when the team first captured my imagination. It's easy to find a book about stats, or a dry analysis of a baseball team's chances. It's much harder to find the folklore of a team--not just who the important players were, but why people still care about them, what brought them to life for other fans watching games last year, a dozen years ago--or a hundred years ago. This is a book about Ted Williams and Babe Ruth and Pedro Martinez and Nomar Garciaparra, but it's also a book about Ed Jurak catching a rat in his glove, and Tom Maggard dying just at the brink of the major leagues. There are stories about more than 350 players in this book--some of them famous, some of them funny, some of them tragic, some of them just about the lives of people that we care about, or that previous generations of fans cared about.

About the Author:

Leigh Grossman is an editor, writer, reviewer, and college instructor. He is the president of Swordsmith Productions, a publisher, book development, and book production company. In addition, he teaches writing and science fiction at the University of Connecticut. Grossman has authored seven books, and has reviewed books for Absolute Magnitude, Horror magazine, and Wavelengths. He lives in northeast Connecticut with his wife, Lesley McBain, and the world's surliest cats.

About this edition

• Publisher: Rounder Records Group
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1579401104
• ISBN 13: 9781579401108
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 386