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A chunky book filled to the brim with quotes, stats and trivia that every Boston Red Sox fan will have to have.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful:
 Fun read full of interesting facts!, 2008-04-08
This is a fun book, full of facts, but quick and easy to read. It is a must have for any Boston Red Sox fan or any other baseball fan(except the vile New Yorkers of course).
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
 Old Time Red Sox Fans, 2007-05-22
This book is good for older Red Sox fans, the younger Red Sox Nation will not even recognize who they are talking about most of the time.
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
A must for any Red Sox fan, 2007-03-12
This is a very enjoyable book. A must for any Red Sox fan. Although, I must comment on Mr. Nawlin's assessment of the book. Mr. Nawlin sights some misspellings and other mistakes the author made. The comment about where exactly Tony Conigliaro was hit prompted me to check this out. In the book "Tony C, The Triumph and Tragedy of Tony Conigliaro" on page 107 the quote states "He heard the ball hiss as it cut through the air and felt it wallop squarely at ninety miles per hour into his left eye and cheekbone just below the temple." This seems pretty clear that hit was hit in the eye and the picture showing him in the hospital bed sure looks like he got hit in the eye. As for the date, I'll give him that it was one day off. This prompts me to speculate further. Now, I'm not a published author, however I figured that editing of text was the responsibility of the editors employed by the publisher, So comments on editing mistakes should be aimed at the publisher. Additionally, on the subject of competing authors critiquing another's work, Dan Simmons in the book "Hyperion" states "Writers were among my acquaintances but, as in all times, we tended to mistrust and badmouth each other, secretly resenting the other's successes and finding fault in their work. Each of us knew in his or her heart that he or she was a true artist of the word who merely happened to be commercial; the others were hacks."
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
Exceptional Read!!, 2007-03-12
Being a "newbie" to the Red Sox, the Red Sox Fanatic Book was user-friendly and quite a delight to learn the history. I am an educator and enjoyed the way the history was presented, without the wordiness. The book is truly a fun and exceptional read, in which I learned quite a bit. The book is a great tool for trivia and baseball debates.
I am looking forward to many more books by David Horne!
Go Get'em.
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
a fun book, but too many errors, 2007-02-23
This is an entertaining book, a couple of notches above a trivia book but presented in an enjoyable bite-size fashion. Though it runs to over 500 pages, many times there is just one sentence on a page. It's that kind of book, like a daily calendar with a different factoid on each page, but these are often strung together to tell a brief tale. The brief bits are well-chosen, and often stimulating even to experienced readers of Red Sox books. The 4-star rating is based on the book accomplishing what it set out to do, and doing it pretty nicely.
The problem is that it was carelessly edited. The author makes a point about how sportswriters used to butcher the spelling of Carl Yastrzemski's surname - but then misspells Ted Williams! (page 345)
Other people whose names are misspelled include Boo Ferriss, Fred Lieb, Yankees owner Huston, Red Sox historian Glenn Stout (rendered as Glenn Stuart on p. 162), Boston Globe sportswriter Tim Murnane, and Red Sox player Clyde Engle (called Cliff Engle.)
The word "first" is misspelled on page 315. The author misdates the day on which Tony Conigliaro was hit by Jack Hamilton's pitch (and misplaces the location of the injury.)
In his listing of pairs of brothers who played for the Red Sox, he omits 1986 ALCS MVP Marty Barrett and his brother Tommy. And he omits the Hevings, the Hughes, the Gastons, and the Sadowskis - in other words, he missed more than half of them: five of the nine pairs! Errors like this knock the book down a star in my rating. One can't entirely blame the writer, however; a good editor would have caught these mistakes.
The book was a fun read and I'm glad I have it on my Red Sox bookshelf.
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