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The Little Red (Sox) Book: A Revisionist Red Sox History
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by Bill Lee and Jim Prime
Sales Rank: 703318
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List Price: $19.95
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 224 pages
Published by: Triumph Books March 2003
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1572435275
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1572435278
Book Dimensions:
8 x 5.1 x 0.6 inches
Weighs: 12.8 ounces
Reader Reviews
I'm not a Red Sox fan, so I can't really identify with long-suffering Boston baseball fans, to whom this book is really directed. I can, however, appreciate the history of baseball, good humor and the occasional satire, all of which Bill Lee provides in his tongue-in-cheek revision of the history of the Boston Red Sox. From the Ho Chi Minh Trial to Ted Williams' saving of the free world to "Bucky freuging Dent": concert pianist, this book is filled with wonderfully silly speculations of what might have been, had the episodes that have caused so much heartbreak for Boston baseball fans not occurred. Lee takes aim at several of his most despised adversaries, including the Yankees and Don Zimmer (whom he referred to as a "Gerbil" during his career), and never lets up. The fall of New York and the rise of Boston are directly linked to the fate of the Babe, as Yankee fans become the embittered and cynical of the two, and Boston becomes the Baseball capital of the world. What would have happened if the Red Sox would not have traded Babe Ruth? If Ted Williams hadn't lost 5 years to war? If Jackie Robinson had been signed by the Bosox? If Bucky Dent had become a concert pianist instead of a baseball player? Probably not Lee's revised version of events, but that doesn't make the book any less enjoyable, it managed to keep a smile on my face throughout. A good, funny, fanciful baseball story.
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