Article: RED SOX CENTURY: One Hundred Years of Red Sox Baseball.(Review)

RED SOX CENTURY: One Hundred Years of Red Sox Baseball By Glenn Stout and Richard A. Johnson Houghton Mifflin, $40.00

IN 1919, FRESH FROM MUSTERING out of the U.S. Army, my father left his village in Maine for Boston, an exciting city with an exciting baseball team. The Red Sox reigned as world champions, having won their fifth World Series in 1918. With Irish luck, he arrived just in time for Babe Ruth's last season, and he was hooked.

At Fenway Park, on the radio and television, he and his progeny took a seasonal ride to the giddy heights of 'Almost," to the last week, the last game, the last playoff (in 1948 and 1978), and the seventh game of the ...

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