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The Red Sox in the Playoffs

Author : Joshua R. Pahigian
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 0786427787
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Red Sox in the Playoffs written by Joshua R. Pahigian and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2006-10-27 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic postseason collapses and logic-defying defeats suffered by the Boston Red Sox in the 86 long years between their 1918 and 2004 world championships are the stuff of legend. Fan fixation on the climactic moments--Johnny Pesky's late throw in 1946, Bill Buckner's boot in 1986 and so many others--leaves the full story of the team's experiences in the playoffs and World Series too little remembered. This thorough history covers all postseason appearances from 1903 through 2005, including the one-game playoffs of 1948 and 1978. A review of each playoff team's regular season exploits not only explains how the team qualified for postseason play, but also captures the feeling of the team and its fans during the campaign. Every postseason game is studied in detail.

The Forgotten Game

Author : John Vampatella
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1642939897
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (429 download)

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Download or read book The Forgotten Game written by John Vampatella and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping detailed recap of the wildly insane, oft-overlooked, extra-innings classic that turned the 2004 ALCS into the most memorable playoff series in modern history. No team had ever come back from a 3–0 deficit to win a postseason series in baseball. In the history of MLB postseason play going into Game 5, there had been twenty-five series to start out 3–0. Of those, twenty ended in sweeps, two made it to a sixth game, and none had made it to a seventh game. The Forgotten Game details one of the greatest games in baseball history between the two most bitter rivals in the sport. For years the two teams fought for American League supremacy, with the Yankees usually coming out on top. Following an incredible 2003 playoff series, the two teams squared off again in 2004 for the right to go to the World Series. The Yankees won the first three games in convincing fashion, and it seemed, yet again, they would eliminate the Red Sox…until Boston miraculously won Game 4. Most fans remember the steal by Dave Roberts that sparked the game-tying rally in the ninth to keep Boston’s hopes alive. And most fans remember Curt Schilling’s sutured ankle in Game 6. But Game 5 was a do-or-die moment for the Red Sox, and they delivered in epic fashion. Yet, despite being the pivotal game in the series, it hasn’t drawn the attention the others have. The Forgotten Game breaks down Game 5 on a virtual pitch-by-pitch basis, from the battle between Pedro Martinez and Mike Mussina, to the clutch performances by Tim Wakefield and David Ortiz, while breaking down the strategies the managers employed, and stories of how various players made their way to their respective teams for that fateful night. Never before has the story of Game 5 been told in such vivid and riveting detail. “If you’ve devoured everything Red Sox-Yankees you’ll LOVE IT. If you are new to the rivalry and era you will understand it for the first time. I couldn’t put it down and loved the historical context of each inning. I loved it.” —Gar Ryness (Batting Stance Guy) “While most people remember Boston's dramatic game 4 victory or Curt Schilling's bloody sock heroics in game 6, game 5 was truly the unsung hero of the series. John Vampatella does a magnificent job of explaining why while providing tremendous background and anecdotes that all baseball fans will enjoy. The Forgotten Game is an absolute must for Red Sox fans of all ages!” —Scott Cordischi, WEEI sports talk show host

Don't Let Us Win Tonight

Author : Allan Wood
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1637273959
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (372 download)

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Download or read book Don't Let Us Win Tonight written by Allan Wood and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2024-05-21 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now revised and updated to include reflections on the modern era of Red Sox baseball Commemorating the Boston Red Sox's unforgettable championship run in the fall of 2004, go behind the scenes and inside the dugout, bullpen, and clubhouse to discover how this team defied the ultimate odds. This oral history highlights how, during a span of just 76 hours, the Red Sox won four do-or-die games against their archrivals, the New York Yankees, to qualify for the World Series and complete the greatest comeback in baseball history. Then the Red Sox steamrolled through the fall classic, sweeping the St. Louis Cardinals in four games to capture their first championship since 1918.Don't Let Us Win Tonight is brimming with revealing quotes from Boston's front office personnel, coaches, medical staff, and players, including Kevin Millar talking about his infectious optimism and the team's pregame ritual of drinking whiskey, Dave Roberts revealing how he prepared to steal the most famous base of his career, and Dr. William Morgan describing the radical surgery he performed on Curt Schilling's right ankle. The ultimate keepsake for any Red Sox fan, this is the 2004 team in their own words.

Mind Game

Author : Steven Goldman
Publisher : Workman Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780761140184
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Mind Game written by Steven Goldman and published by Workman Publishing. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An account of the 2004 winning season of the Red Sox debunks popular myths and provides statistics and commentary on players and teams to explain how baseball games are won.

Elimination Game!

Author : Larry Howser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (393 download)

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Download or read book Elimination Game! written by Larry Howser and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-23 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For years, the Boston Red Sox carried the burden of "The Curse of the Bambino" - beginning when Harry Frazee, the owner of the Boston Red Sox, sold the greatest player in baseball history, Babe Ruth, to the New York Yankees, after the 1919 season - supposedly to finance one of his Broadway musicals (although the musical he was supposed to have been financing was not produced for a number of years). To that point, the Red Sox had won five of the first 15 World Series, the most of any team. From that point onward until 2004, the Yankees won 39 American league pennants (to the Red Sox' four) and 26 World Series (to the Sox' zero). In 2018, the Boston Red Sox captured their fourth World Series title in 15 years, after "Reversing the Curse" in 2004, ending 86 years of frustration. All these facts are very well known to most Red Sox fans, especially the constant of the "Curse" until the team finally triumphed in 2004. During the championship run of 2013, and again in 2018, the Bosox never faced an elimination game. But, in tracing back through the last 50+ years of major league baseball, there is no franchise that equals the Red Sox record in post-season elimination games. This is what I am interested in looking at in this book. For many years, we listened to the story of the curse under which the Red Sox operated. As a Red Sox fan, it was enjoyable, and certainly relaxing, that in 2013 the team NEVER faced a game in which they HAD to win to continue their season - and, of course, they repeated the feat in 2018. The last time that had happened to the Boston nine, it was in the 1918 World Series. Throughout the years of Boston postseason baseball, the Boston Red Sox - win OR lose - have produced some of the most tension-filled, exciting postseason baseball anyone has seen.

Win It for ....

Author : Eric Christensen
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781596700840
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Win It for .... written by Eric Christensen and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Win it for...is a tribute to a most underrated virtue - loyalty. It is a sonnet to ta team, the Boston Red Sox, that has been a defining obsession for an entire region of people for more than five generations. The book features a collection fo searing and heartfelt postings from hundreds of fans who wanted to dedicate a Red Sox victory in the 2004 American League playoffs and World Series to some unforgettable peoople in their lives. On the morning of the seventh game of the epic Red Sox - Yankees American League Championship Series, Shaun Kelly, who wrote the book's preface and is a member of the internet message board at SonsofSamHorn.com, began pounding away on his computer keyboard crafting his own particular 'mojo that he hoped would ultimately defeat the despised Yankees. He originated the Win it for thread and urged other members, some 2,000 strong, to do the same - urging the Red Sox to win it for the people who had loved the team through thick and thin.

The Best 2004 PDA Journal Entries:The Boston Red Sox Playoffs

Author : C. Andrews
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557936470
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Best 2004 PDA Journal Entries:The Boston Red Sox Playoffs written by C. Andrews and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2011 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game

Author : Michael Lewis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393066231
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game written by Michael Lewis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2004-03-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Lewis’s instant classic may be “the most influential book on sports ever written” (People), but “you need know absolutely nothing about baseball to appreciate the wit, snap, economy and incisiveness of [Lewis’s] thoughts about it” (Janet Maslin, New York Times). One of GQ's 50 Best Books of Literary Journalism of the 21st Century Just before the 2002 season opens, the Oakland Athletics must relinquish its three most prominent (and expensive) players and is written off by just about everyone—but then comes roaring back to challenge the American League record for consecutive wins. How did one of the poorest teams in baseball win so many games? In a quest to discover the answer, Michael Lewis delivers not only “the single most influential baseball book ever” (Rob Neyer, Slate) but also what “may be the best book ever written on business” (Weekly Standard). Lewis first looks to all the logical places—the front offices of major league teams, the coaches, the minds of brilliant players—but discovers the real jackpot is a cache of numbers?numbers!?collected over the years by a strange brotherhood of amateur baseball enthusiasts: software engineers, statisticians, Wall Street analysts, lawyers, and physics professors. What these numbers prove is that the traditional yardsticks of success for players and teams are fatally flawed. Even the box score misleads us by ignoring the crucial importance of the humble base-on-balls. This information had been around for years, and nobody inside Major League Baseball paid it any mind. And then came Billy Beane, general manager of the Oakland Athletics. He paid attention to those numbers?with the second-lowest payroll in baseball at his disposal he had to?to conduct an astonishing experiment in finding and fielding a team that nobody else wanted. In a narrative full of fabulous characters and brilliant excursions into the unexpected, Michael Lewis shows us how and why the new baseball knowledge works. He also sets up a sly and hilarious morality tale: Big Money, like Goliath, is always supposed to win . . . how can we not cheer for David?

The Red Sox Encyclopedia

Author : Robert Redmount
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781582610122
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book The Red Sox Encyclopedia written by Robert Redmount and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 1998 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red Sox Encyclopedia is the definitive reference book on the proud history of one of the Major League Baseball's oldest and most storied franchises. Notwithstanding the infamous 'Curse of the Bambino', the Red Sox story is a matter of pride and achievement, and of pleasure and excitement.

Boston Red Sox Firsts

Author : Bill Nowlin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493075640
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Boston Red Sox Firsts written by Bill Nowlin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-06-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 111-year-history of the Boston Red Sox, fans have been treated to countless firsts— the first manager of the franchise (Jimmy Collins), the first American League MVP to play for the Sox (Tris Speaker), the first 20-game winner (Bill Dineen), the first to hit 500 home runs (Ted Williams), and the first Red Sox pitcher to win the Cy Young Award (Roger Clemens). The list goes on. In Boston Red Sox Firsts, veteran Red Sox historian Bill Nowlin presents the stories behind the firsts in Red Sox history in question-and-answer format. More than a mere trivia book, Nowlin’s collection includes substantive answers to the question of “who was the first…?” on a variety of topics, many of which will surprise even seasoned fans of the Sox.

How the Red Sox Explain New England

Author : Jon Chattman
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1623682231
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book How the Red Sox Explain New England written by Jon Chattman and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the unique affinity New Englanders have for their Red Sox, this work illustrates how the storied history of the franchise mirrors that of New England itself. Founded in 1901 and playing in front of sold out crowds at Fenway Park for more than a century, the Boston Red Sox are far and away New England's most beloved franchise, and this work features topics such as the team's relationship to the Kennedys, the comparison of fans' treatment of Bill Buckner to the Salem Witch Trials, the fans inside an Irish pub in one of Boston's toughest neighborhoods, and travels to a miniature replica of Fenway Park in a small Vermont town. Entertaining and informative, "How the Red Sox Explain New England" is sure to be popular among one of sports' most passionate and dedicated fan bases.

Red Sox Vs. Yankees

Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
ISBN 13 : 9781596700581
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Red Sox Vs. Yankees written by Harvey Frommer and published by Sports Publishing LLC. This book was released on 2005 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry covers nearly a century's worth of epic battles on and off the baseball field between these age-old rivals. Featuring exclusive interviews with former governors Mario Cuomo of New York and Michael Dukakis of Massachusetts, former press secretary Ari Fleischer, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, congressmen, reporters, broadcasters, and especially players, coaches, managers and front-office execs from the Red Sox and Yankees including Don Zimmer, Nomar Garciaparra, Derek Lowe, Jason and Jeremy Giambi, Lou Meroni, Dwight Evans, and Theo Epstein. Two unique features of the book are a Rivalry Timeline and a "Talkin' Rivalry" section, a free-for-all in print among fans, journalists, and players who all have something to say. Other chapters include "Marker Moments," in-depth profiles of Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams, Fenway Park and Yankee Stadium. More than two years in the making, this coffee-table book will have nearly 256 pages of text and more than 125 photos, some in color, some archival. A perfect book for Yankee fans, Red Sox fans, and all baseball fans.

Boston Red Sox

Author : Lew Freedman
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1629688169
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Boston Red Sox written by Lew Freedman and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inside MLB profiles each of the 30 franchises in Major League Baseball. Boston Red Sox is a beginner's history of the Red Sox, covering the beginnings of the franchise, the greatest and lowest moments of the team, and the best players and managers. Fun facts, anecdotes, and sidebars round out the story of each club, allowing your readers to get Inside MLB! Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. SportsZone is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

For the Love of the Red Sox

Author : Frederick C. Klein
Publisher : Triumph Books
ISBN 13 : 1623685397
Total Pages : 47 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (236 download)

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Download or read book For the Love of the Red Sox written by Frederick C. Klein and published by Triumph Books. This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Expressing the passion felt for the Red Sox using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the Boston team explores the sports obsession in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most famous--and infamous--characters in the baseball team's history.

The Curse of the Bambino or How the Sox Finally End It

Author : Liam
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1503545318
Total Pages : 91 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Curse of the Bambino or How the Sox Finally End It written by Liam and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2015-05-01 with total page 91 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It has been said that the Red Sox are part of the patrimony of the New England; generation after generation has inherited a fidelity to the cause of the men of Fenway, known throughout New England as The Sox. The Red Sox are as much a part of that historic corner of the American nation as the mountains, lakes, and shoreline that so graphically characterize it. The focal point of this devotion is Fenway Park, the small, old, oddly shaped home field of the Red Sox since April 20, 1912. Built for a game that feeds off its own history, that follows a seamless course through the years, Fenway is an ideal place to watch baseball, where one can sit comfortably with the shadows of George Herman Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx, Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Carl Yastrzemski, Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk, Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens and all other titans who have passed this way. Every Red Sox fan is a shareholder in that history, possesses an anchorage in that past, and holds a ticket in the future. Through their long and unpredictable history the Red Sox have been many things: triumphant, exciting, and gallant, as well as frustrating and disappointing. Through all personnel changes that baseball teams must necessarily undergo, they have never failed to exude a certain charm that is rare in any athletic endeavor. These are the qualities of the Boston Red Sox, one of the ongoing enchantments of New England.

Baseball Between the Numbers

Author : Jonah Keri
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465003737
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Baseball Between the Numbers written by Jonah Keri and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the numbers-obsessed sport of baseball, statistics don't merely record what players, managers, and owners have done. Properly understood, they can tell us how the teams we root for could employ better strategies, put more effective players on the field, and win more games. The revolution in baseball statistics that began in the 1970s is a controversial subject that professionals and fans alike argue over without end. Despite this fundamental change in the way we watch and understand the sport, no one has written the book that reveals, across every area of strategy and management, how the best practitioners of statistical analysis in baseball-people like Bill James, Billy Beane, and Theo Epstein-think about numbers and the game. Baseball Between the Numbers is that book. In separate chapters covering every aspect of the game, from hitting, pitching, and fielding to roster construction and the scouting and drafting of players, the experts at Baseball Prospectus examine the subtle, hidden aspects of the game, bring them out into the open, and show us how our favorite teams could win more games. This is a book that every fan, every follower of sports radio, every fantasy player, every coach, and every player, at every level, can learn from and enjoy.

Red Sox vs. Yankees

Author : Harvey Frommer
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1589799194
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)

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Download or read book Red Sox vs. Yankees written by Harvey Frommer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-04-07 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rivalry between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox involves not just the teams, but the cities, owners, ballparks, fans, and the media. Its roots reach back to before even Babe Ruth and Harry Frazee, yet it is as contemporary as the next Red Sox–Yankees game. This book tells the story of the rivalry from the first game these epic teams played against each other in 1901 through the 2013 season in what former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani called “the best rivalry in any sport.”