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The 50 Greatest Red Sox Games
by Cecilia Tan, Bill Nowlin
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Wiley (2006-03-31)
ISBN: 0471697516
EAN: 9780471697510
Dewey Decimal #: 796.357640974461
Hardcover: 256 pages
SKU: 0805180019
Condition: Used: Like New
Comments: clean and unmarked - Thanks!
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
Advance Praise for THE 50 GREATEST RED SOX GAMES
"Here's the deal. It costs about $43 for a grandstand seat at Fenway Park these days, unless you buy the ticket from a scalper, which makes the cost $2 million. If you went to just 50 games of any dimension that means the cost would be either $2,150 or $100 million. Here, for considerably less, you get the 50 greatest games the Red Sox ever played plus tight prose, snappy anecdotes, and reasoned judgments. Bargains like this don't come often. Plus, you don't even have to pay for parking."
--Leigh Montville, author of Ted Williams: The Biography of an American Hero
"It's a daunting task, but Cecilia Tan and Bill Nowlin have come up with the Red Sox greatest hits album, the box set. Enjoy."
--Dan Shaughnessy, author of Reversing the Curse
"Old Towne Team fans will think they have died and gone to heaven with The 50 Greatest Red Sox Games in their grasp. Informative, exciting, entertaining . . . Cecilia Tan and Bill Nowlin have done a good deed for the Fenway faithful."
--Harvey Frommer, coauthor of Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry
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Customer Reviews
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From Big Bill Dinneen to Keith Foulke; 50 games, 101 years
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-07-01
2 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
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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