Red Sox Century : Limited Edition

In the year 2001, the Red Sox will celebrate one hundred years of baseball in Boston. In no other city, in no other sport, has there been a team that has enjoyed such a loyal following and yet has broken more hearts. This is the Red Sox story in its entirety, much of it never before told - from the team's inception, orchestrated by baseball czar Ban Johnson, and its early peak in 1918, with its fifth and LAST World Series win; through the glory years, which saw the rise of such greats as Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Teddy Ballgame, and Yaz, and which witnessed the "Impossible Dream" of 1967 and near-misses in 1975 and 1986; to the present, when the Sox are still chasing the world championship that their fabled destiny seems not to want them to have. In these pages, many a Red Sox myth is debunked, and many stories are told for the first time. Did the Red Sox fix the first World Series game ever played? What is the truth about Babe Ruth and Harry Frazee? Did Johnny Pesky hold the ball? Does Fenway Park have a future? Will the Red Sox ever win a World Series again? Drawn from countless interviews and tireless research and illustrated with more than two hundred photographs, RED SOX CENTURY is far more than a picture book. It is a comprehensive and always colorful history of a team that helped to define not only its city but its sport.Johnson, Richard is the author of 'Red Sox Century : Limited Edition', published 2000 under ISBN 9780618094547 and ISBN 0618094547.