The 50 Greatest Red Sox Games
by Cecilia Tan, Bill Nowlin
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Author: Bill Nowlin, Cecilia TanEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-03-31
ISBN: 0471697516
Number of pages: 256
Publisher: Wiley
Book Reviews of The 50 Greatest Red Sox Games
Book Review: From Big Bill Dinneen to Keith Foulke; 50 games, 101 years
Summary: 3 Stars
The authors have set themselves the difficult task of deciding which Red Sox games are not in the top 50. My personal feeling is that you cannot leave out the clinching playoff game against the Indians in 1999 in which an injured Pedro Martinez comes out of the bullpen to pitch hitless relief while Troy O'Leary clinches the series with a grand slam.
Overall though, Tan and Nowlin do a good job of selecting games from all Red Sox eras without overemphasizing the most recent. They do an especially good job describing games from early 20th century world championship runs. Extensive research was done and is obvious in the text. I most enjoyed the quotes from newspapers of the time written in syntax that could have come out of Guys and Dolls. Each game summary is 3-4 pages long. I think play by play detail is stressed at the expense of placing the game in full context. But the book is fun to read especially at the beach or during a baseball game in which the Sox have a big lead and you are passing the time.
This is probably a book for Sox fans only and one that would not likely have been written without the success of 2004. Older fans can relive some great moments while newer Sox followers (and they do seem to sprout up everywhere) can use this book as a primer on seasons they have missed.
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