Thomas J. Whalen

Being a genial, quick look at the good Red Sox teams of the ragtime era and the milieu in which they operated. The author is little concerned with game narratives; they appear only when the team makes the World Series, and are often very short even then. He also usually presents them in the singular format of describing how one team, usually the loser, scored its runs, and then how the other team scored. His main focus, though, is on biographical vignettes of various important team players and management, an approach which I generally like, though it must be said that he often introduces them at inopportune times (like in the seventh inning of a World Series Game 7 he's describing).… (altro)