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A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest, Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America
Running Press
March 2012
On Sale: March 6, 2012
278 pages
ISBN: 0762442042
EAN: 9780762442041
Kindle: B0072IFY04
Hardcover / e-Book
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Fenway Park. The name evokes a team and a sport that have
become more synonymous with a city’s identity than any
stadium or arena in the country. Since opening in the same week of 1912 that the Titanic
sank, the park’s instantly recognizable confines have seen
some of the most dramatic happenings in baseball history,
including Carlton Fisk’s “Is it fair?” home run in the 1975
World Series and Ted Williams’s perfectly scripted long ball
in his final at-bat. For 100 years, the Fenway faithful have
been tested. They have known triumph and heartbreak,
miracles and curses—well, one curse in particular—to such a
degree that an entire nation of fans heaved a collective
sigh of relief when Dave Roberts stole a base by a fingertip
in 2004, triggering the most amazing comeback in the game’s
annals. To sit and watch a game at Fenway is to recognize that the
pitcher is standing on the same mound where Walter Johnson,
Christy Mathewson, and Babe Ruth pitched, that a hitter is
in the same batter’s box where Ty Cobb and Hank Aaron and
Shoeless Joe Jackson dug in to take their swings. This is a
ballpark that has embraced its odd construction quirks,
including the bizarre triangle out in center field and the
Green Monster that looms above the left fielder, and
today—for better and for worse—it remains largely unchanged
from the day it opened. In its long history, Fenway has hosted football, hockey,
soccer, boxing, and so much more. It has provided a backdrop
to hundreds of historic events having nothing to do with
sports, including concerts, religious gatherings, and
political rallies. It was the site of Franklin Delano
Roosevelt’s final campaign address, as well as visits by
music luminaries from Stevie Wonder to Bruce Springsteen to
the Rolling Stones. Through it all, the Boston Globe has been the consistent,
respected chronicler of every important moment in park
history. In fact, the newspaper played a remarkable role in
Fenway’s creation and evolution: the Taylor family—founders
and longtime owners of the Globe—owned the ballclub in 1912,
helped finance the new stadium, and renamed the team the
“Red Sox”. It is the Globe’s insider perspective, combined
with more than a century of exemplary journalism, that makes
this book the definitive narrative history of both park and
team, and a centennial collectors’ item unlike any other.
Its pages offer a level of detail that is unmatched, with
exceptional writing and hundreds of rarely seen photographs
and illustrations. This is Fenway Park, the complete story, unfiltered and
expertly told.
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