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Sto caricando le informazioni... Why Not Us?: The 86-year Journey of the Boston Red Sox Fans From Unparalleled Suffering to the Promised Land of the 2004 World Seriesdi Leigh Montville
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. As a Brit, I cam to baseball late. I cannot remember what brought me to Boston in the early 1990s but I had discovered baseball in Durham NC at the Durham Athletic Park and fell in love with game. I loved the Bulls but back then it was impossible to follow minor league baseball from across an ocean. My wife supported the Braves but I did not engage with any major league team until I went to Fenway Park and found a new home in right field. I could follow the Sox on TV, in the press, and later online. For more than ten seasons I would follow the shared trajectory of initial optimism to dashed dreams. I had no family tradition of decades of disappointment but I head the stories in bars, restaurants, and family homes. I assimilated the despair. Then, in 2004, the world was turned upside down. The Red Sox finally won. This book captures the excitement and catharsis of that victory. ( ) nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Generation after generation watched and hoped and prayed for victory. And generation after generation turned away frustrated and disappointed- 1946 (when the Sox lost the World Series in 7 games), '48 (lost a one game play-off to Cleveland), '49 (heartbreak to the Yankees), '67 (again, lost the Series in 7), '75 (and again, lost the Series in 7), Bucky in '78, Buckner in '86, Boone in 2003. Yet every spring the fans flocked back, hopeful again. The losing, the angst, the self-flagellation became so routine that it even developed marketing names. The suffering was called "The Curse of the Bambino". The sufferers were called "Red Sox Nation" - the ultimate underdogs. Would it ever end? And then it did. Why Not Us? is about what the Red Sox's amazing victory in the 2004 World Series meant to the fans. It's about how it felt to be a Red Sox fan - not only at 20 minutes to midnight on October 27, 2004, but decades before. Leigh Montville, best-selling author of Ted Williams and At the Altar of Speed , has interviewed dozens of fans: friends, friends of friends, old sportswriters, ball-players, public figures, and plain folk. Here are their stories-bittersweet stories of passion and pain, eternal hope and crushing despair, the seemingly endless agony and the strange ecstasy of being a Red Sox fan. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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