Fenway Fanatics: 50 Boston Red Sox Fans Tell Their Stories

by Greg Pearson

What is about Boston Red Sox fans? Rich and poor, old and young, famous and infamous, they hail from New England, of course, but also from Saskatchewan, Uzbekistan, Japan and the Ukraine. Author Greg Pearson has collected half a hundred of them who told their tales of the Bambino s curse, Bucky Dent, Bill Buckner and that history-making championship season: 2004. For these fans, the Red Sox are all tied up with family history, romance and the meaning of life. Obsessive? Of course. But these are true people stories, fascinating to read, people who share a common insanity. The book chronicles the baseball obsessions of Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops; E.J. Dionne, a columnist for the Washington Post; guitarist John Pizzarelli, Jim Calhoun, the men's basketball coach at the University of Connecticut and Linda Ruth Tosetti, the granddaughter of Babe Ruth.

302 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 2013

Reviews

[Du · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is a great oral history for baseball fans, by Red Sox fans. There are many touching and interesting stories from fans about their relationship with the Red Sox, but also with each other. The crux is that the Red Sox are not just a team, but a connection point that people can use to form new bonds and keep established ones.

The fans featured include young and old, celebrity and not. The style of writing is interview with recap, so you feel the interviewers presence, but you don't feel that the writer has influenced the story told.

[KC · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great book with stories of Red Sox fans from all over, including the author. As a Sox fan, after the disaster of 2012 and the epic World Series win of 2013... It was a great read.