- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: W&N (7 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0297850636
- ISBN-13: 978-0297850632
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.4 x 4.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 350,035 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Stephen King and Stewart O'Nan, lifelong Boston Red Sox addicts, chronicle the 2004 baseball season from spring training to the last dramatic game, in their fantastic World Series-winning season.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A lot of us will have created this book ourselves in the emails we send our friends about our favourite football, baseball or whatever team. Not all of us, of course, can write as well as Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King. This aside, they're essentially the everyfan - the schmucks who are addicted to their team (King actually has a great digression on the Red Sox as his narcotic addiction). And in that way they're just like us.
This book is nothing more than the collection of their diaries and email exchanges throughout what was to be an historic season. And, of course, it's a tremendous temptation just to turn to the back to see how ecstatic they are at the end, but it's that knowing the ending that makes it great. At the moment I'm just past Spring Training and we're leading in the first two Yankees series, so they're both optimistic but shot through with the in-bred Red Sox pessimism - convinced this can't be the year. They're so-so about Curt Schilling, worried about which Pedro Martinez is going to turn up when he pitches, and grouchy about the management. And I know they're gonna be like this right up until we steal it from the Yankees in the AL series.
Probably for baseball fans only. And given their liberal usage of Sox slang, pet names for players, and throwaway references to the too often tragic Sox history, it's probably only for Red Sox supporting baseball fans. But if, like me, you're part of the Nation - and if, of course, you always believed - then Cowboy Up, 'cause you're in for a real treat.
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Format:Hardcover
In March 2004, Stephen King, and Stewart O'Nan believed. They believed that this was the year, and that they were going to capture the moment "the curse" was ended and the Red Sox became World Champions for the first time since 1918.
This book leads you through that monumental season as seen by 2 people who are probably bigger sports fans than I am (and that says a hell of a lot). There are plenty of lows along the way, as well as the highs, but what comes through most is an abiding love for the game, and a hatred of the Yankees (as I say, a love for the game), that can be recognised by fans of all sports throughout the world.
A book about baseball and baseball fans, for everyone and every fan.
Format:Paperback
FANTASTIC READ FROM BEGINNING TO END!!THE TWO WRITERS TAKE YOU ON AN UNBELIEVABLE ROLLER COASTER OF EMOTION BEGINNING WITH SPRING TRAINING AND THE PRE-SEASON WARM-UP GAMES RIGHT THROUGH TO THE GAME WHEN THE RED SOX ARE CROWNED WORLD CHAMPIONS!!READING THE BOOK IT'S SOMETIMES VERY HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THESE GUYS ACTUALLY WON THE WORLD SERIES-ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY GO ON A LOSING STREAK AND EVERYBODY THAT WANTS THEM TO DO WELL(THE PRESS AND FANS)STARTS TO GET ON THEIR BACKS BUT THEY ALL PULL TOGETHER AND GET THERE IN THE END!!THE HIGHLIGHT OF THE BOOK-WITHOUT QUESTION-JUST HAS TO BE THE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES AGAINST THE RED SOX ARCH RIVALS AND LONG TERM NEMESIS-THE NEW YORK YANKEES!!AT TIMES YOU CAN ALMOST FEEL THE TENSION DURING THE SEVEN GAME "EPIC"!!EXCELLENT BOOK-HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!
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