Fenway Faithful

The Curse, the Comeback, and the Cathedral on Lansdowne Street

von Alex Ishikawa

98 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Five championships in sixteen years. Then eighty-six years of nothing.

In 1918 the Boston Red Sox were the best organisation in baseball. They had won five World Series in sixteen seasons, they had the greatest pitcher alive playing left field between starts, and they had just won a title in a country at war. Two years later they sold Babe Ruth to New York - and the lights went out for the better part of a century.

Fenway Faithful is the whole story, told the way it gets told in the bleachers rather than the press box. It starts with a raid on the National League and a saloon keeper named Nuf Ced, whose supporters' club sang the first World Series away from Pittsburgh. It runs through Ted Williams's .406 and the war years that took the middle out of his career, through Yaz and the Impossible Dream, through Fisk waving it fair, through Bucky Dent and Bill Buckner and every ingenious new way a baseball team found to break a city's heart. And then it arrives at October 2004, and eight days that had no business happening.

What's inside:

- The full arc, 1901 to the present - every championship, every collapse, every trade the city still argues about- The Proof - fact boxes closing each chapter, so the romance never has to be taken on faith- The myths corrected - why the No, No, Nanette story is false, why the "Curse of the Bambino" dates to 1990 and not 1920, and why the ball through Buckner's legs didn't lose the World Series- Fenway Park itself - the wall, the red seat, the hand-turned scoreboard, and why the geometry is an accident of Lansdowne Street

Written for the people who already know how it ends - and want to read it again anyway.

• ISBN: 9798188195106
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 20.07.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp