The rock, the curse, and the hub
Subtitle: a random history of Boston sports
By: edited by Randy Roberts.
Contributors: Roberts, Randy, 1951-.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Sports -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History.; Sports -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-398) and index.
Table of contents: title: All gods dead : Babe Ruth and Boston, 1918-1920 / Aram Goudsouzian; title: The Boston Red Sox, 1901-1946 / William E. Leuchtenburg; title: Ted Williams : Boston hero, Boston legend / John Demos; title: The year of the Yaz / John M. Carroll; title: The Boston Marathon : America's oldest annual road race / Matthew Oshinsky and David M. Oshinksy [sic]; title: Rowing on troubled waters / David W. Zang; title: Francis Ouimet at the country club / James Campbell; title: The lost battle for gentlemanly sport, 1869-1909 / Ronald A. Smith; title: Sports, politics, and revenge : the Patriots' strange journey home / David Welky; title: The champion of all champions : John L. Sullivan / Elliott J. Gorn; title: Rocky Marciano and the curse of Al Weill / Russell Sullivan; title: Long before Orr : placing hockey in Boston, 1897-1929 / Stephen Hardy; title: Number 4 is the one : the emergence of Bobby Orr / Randy Roberts; title: The battle of the beards : Russell and Chamberlain / Randy Roberts; title: Beantown, 1986 / Raymond Arsenault.