The Boston Red Sox (Writing Baseball)
Contributors: Al Silverman (Foreword)
Edition: 1st Edition edition
Publisher: Southern Illinois University
Published: March 24, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 269
ISBN-13: 9780809324934
Subjects: Baseball; History of specific subjects; 20th century; Boston Red Sox (Baseball team); Sports & Recreation; Sports; Massachusetts; Baseball - Essays & Writings; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Essays & Writings; Baseball - History
First sentence: THERE have been Boston Red Stockings almost since the day the national game discarded diapers.
Description: "Through their triumphs and downfalls, no major league club has had a more colorful history than the Boston Red Sox. Originally published in 1947 as part of G.P. Putnam's Sons fifteen celebrated major league histories and aided by twenty-seven photographs of legendary players, Frederick G. Lieb's The Boston Red Sox chronicles the club's early years from its founding as the Pilgrims in 1901 through the 1946 season." "In the American League's infancy, Boston was a city of champions, winning pennants in 1903, 1904, 1912, 1915, 1916, and 1918. In 1903, the underdog Red Sox, still the Pilgrims at that time, prevailed against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series and went on to garner the title of World Champions five more times by 1918. These were the years of pennants and prosperity when the roster was a pantheon of such diamond luminaries as Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Joe Wood, Duffy Lewis, Harry Hooper, Everett Scott, and Cy Young. Jimmy Collins, greatest of third basemen, was the club's first manager, while such players as Bill Dinneen, Buck Freeman, Lou Criger, and Patsy Dougherty added to Boston's rich baseball heritage." "But glory proved fleeting in Boston. Following Ed Barrow's World Series championship of 1918, the Red Sox twice changed ownership, lost star players to the wealthy Yankees in the process, and finished in the cellar nine out of eleven years from 1922 to 1933. Through the costly additions of such stars as Joe Cronin, Lefty Grove, Jimmy Foxx, and Wes Ferrell, Yawkey restored the club to the first division. But a pennant victory eluded him until 1946 when a new set of stars - Ted Williams, Tex Hughson, Bobby Doerr, Dave Ferriss, Johnny Pesky, and Dom DiMaggio - emerged from the Red Sox farm system to at last regain glory for the Red Sox."--Jacket.