| Red Sox Century |  | Author: Richard A. Johnson
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Category: Book
Buy New: $20.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  19 reviews
Media: Paperback
Edition: Uncorrect Proof, Advanced Reading Copy
Pages: 480
ISBN: 0618104585
EAN: 9780618104581
ASIN: 0618104585
Publication Date: 2000
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Product Description
For a century now, the Boston Red Sox have meant many different things to many different people, eliciting elation, frustration, nostalgia, nausea, confidence, anger, bewilderment, love, and loss, often all at once. But no matter the ups and downs, in their long, storied history the Red Sox have always managed to provide us with one thing that is certain -- they are the most interesting team ever to have taken the field. RED SOX CENTURY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF RED SOX BASEBALL tells the Red Sox story in its entirety for the first time, from the team's inception in 1901 and its early peak in 1918, when it won its fifth and last World Series; through the glory years, which saw the rise of such greats as Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Teddy Ballgame, and Yaz and which witnessed the "Impossible Dream" of 1967 and near misses in 1975 and 1986; to the present, when the Sox are still chasing that elusive sixth world championship -- a championship that fate seems not to want them to have. In these pages, many a Red Sox myth is debunked, and many stories are told for the first time.
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 Terribly Pro-NY/Frazee October 9, 2008
I received Red Sox Century expecting a comprehensive, fair look at the tumultuous history of my favorite team. Instead, I received a book written by New Yorkers, ostensibly for New Yorkers. The chapter on Harry Frazee and the sale of Ruth manages to fail in a completely unique way: by somehow ignoring Frazee's destruction of the Red Sox.
The writers continually gloss over the ramifications of the deals, failing to explain how poorly they turned out for his own team. In an objective book, I'd imagine the trade of one of the best hitting catchers in baseball and a 20 year old future hall of famer for 4 journeyman would merit a mention. Not so here.
Any baseball book that passes off honest criticism as anti-semitism is not worth getting. Save your money.
You can judge a book by its cover March 18, 2004
1 out of 26 found this review helpful
Any questions. What a bitter disappointment. If you are a novice baseball fan and just want this as a decorative piece, if fails you there too, with quite possibly the worst baseball book cover ever. Save your money and your time...If you MUST purchase this book mine is for sale on Ebay, no reserve!Jeff
Boston, MA
 The best and most complete history of Red Sox baseball November 28, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
The writing is superb, attention to detail inspiring. If you're a Red Sox fan, you need to read this book.
Extraordinary May 16, 2003
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
After living overseas for much of the last decade, I somehow missed this. But the book was mentioned quite prominently in Halberstam's excellent new book, The Teammates, so I sought it out. This is a rare book that combines research as rigorous as that of any academic with fine writing making it eminently readable, illustrated by pictures that help move the story along rather than just fill up space. I had always fancied myself as more knowledgeable than most Red Sox fans, but this book has humbled me. An absolute must for Sox fanatics.
Fact vs Fiction May 7, 2003
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is THE definitive Red Sox history. It tells the whole story just as it happened. Of course, for Red Sox fans that is both good and bad. If you want a happier ending, read Bill Lee's The Little Red Sox Book, which changes Red Sox history and provides dozens of happy endings, including Ted Williams killing Hitler with a line drive, Babe staying in Boston and Jackie Robinson joining the Red Sox. I suggest you read them both...one to put you out on the ledge and the other to coax you back in.
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