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The Ultimate Red Sox Companion: A Complete Statistical and Reference Guide

by Brian Callaghan
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Saturday Jul 21, 2007
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Although movie, Broadway and TV fans might be able to rattle off trivia about their favorite films, Tony winners and moments when shows jumped the shark, no one beats sports fans for the wealth of obscuria they can memorize and employ in beer-fueled arguments. Considering the virtually infinite number of plays, games, players, teams and decades of competition, the millions of statistics sports fans can memorize grows by the day.

A new book, The Ultimate Red Sox Companion: A Complete Statistical and Reference Encyclopedia, ($24.95, edited by Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer, Maple Street Press) will immediately become a favorite of Boston baseball fans. The paperback tome chronicles New England’s favorite sports team with nearly 400 pages of minutiae and statistics, from 1901 through the 2006 season.

Among the information included in this remarkably thorough book is:

  • 50 pages of full career stats on every man to every pitch for the BoSox, both their Boston records as well as for other teams they pitched for.

  • 60 pages of stats on Red Sox batters from Babe Ruth to Yaz, Wade Boggs, Mo Vaughn and Big Papi.

  • 17 pages of short biographies on Red Sox greats including Cy Young, Dom DiMaggio, Carlton Fisk, Dennis Eckersley and Tim Wakefield.

  • 4 pages chronicling the careers of all 44 Red Sox managers from Jimmy Collins, Bill Carrigan, Ed Barrow and Joe Cronin to Joe Morgan, Jimy Williams, Don Zimmer, Grady Little and Terry Francona.

  • A wealth of facts, unique features and trivia about Fenway Park, whose opening in April 1912 was overshadowed by the tragic sinking of the Titanic.

  • Lists of Cy Young winners, Hall of Fame members, draft picks, year-by-year team rosters, participation in the All Star game, the 50 greatest games in franchise history and even a year-by-year history of the team’s broadcasters.

    While virtually no one would ever read this book cover to cover, with its hundreds of pages of statistics, it’s a marvelous resource true Sox fans will adore. It’s truly a fact-packed encyclopedia of all things Red Sox that should be a welcome addition to the resources available for Fenway fanatics. Consider it a perfect gift for any long-time Sox fan.

    by Edited by Gary Gillette and Pete Palmer

    $24.95
    Maple Street Press
    391 pages

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