Few and Chosen: Defining Red Sox Greatness Across the Eras

by Johnny Pesky, Phil Pepe, Carl Yastrzemski (Foreword)

Boston Red Sox icon Johnny Pesky ranks the five best players at each position to ever take the field in this subjective analysis. Featured players include Mo Vaughn, Jimmie Foxx, Ted Williams, Cy Young, Roger Clemens, Pedro Martinez, Jim Rice, Bill Lee, and Nomar Garciaparra.

Genres: Baseball, Sports

208 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[Erik Kenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was harder to read because it seemed more like Defining Red Sox Greatness Across Pesky's lifetime. He is biased to pick some former teammates who played a few seasons rather than players that spent 7-8 seasons with Boston. Despite Yastrzemski being a LF, he wanted him to have a #1 spot so Pesky chose him for his RF position. While Yaz did play other positions, these kinds of choices leave off players who I would expect to be in this book. This is the second book of Pesky's I have read and the narration was similar. He gets chatty and selfish in his writing and talks a lot about when he played. To me, it distracts from the content about the players being nominated and their playing histories.