Books

Test your expertise with these fastball questions (and a few curves) about your favorite team's hurlers, sluggers, stats and most memorable moments.Take me out to the ballgame!Questions to challenge and entertain both casual and die-hard fans...

The thrilling inside story behind a crucial chapter in Red Sox lore—and a turbulent time in a troubled city. George Steinbrenner called it the greatest game in the history of American sports. On a bright October day in 1978, the Boston Red Sox met the New York Yankees for an epic playoff game that would send one team to the World Series, and render the other cursed for almost a quarter of a century...

“If we could have scored one more run than the White Sox in each game, I think we would have won the series”---so opined Boston manager Terry Francona. Sharp observations such as this have brightened the Red Sox Nation through the years...

Told in delightful verse and charming illustrations, "86 Years: The Legend of the Boston Red Sox" is a "Casey at the Bat" for the 21st century. Sure to become a classic, it is a treasure for every generation, for generations to come.

The ultimate alphabet book for every young Red Sox fan! Children can learn their ABCs with photos of baseball objects and their favorite team - A is All-Star Game, G is Green Monster, P is Pesky's Pole...

A lighthearted, anecdotal history, essential for every Red Sox fan. What do Rube Walberg, Mike Nagy, Kevin Millar, and Dustin Pedroia all have in common? They all wore #15 for the Boston Red Sox. Since 1931, the Red Sox have issued 74 different numbers to more than 1,500 players...

From Jimmy Piersall’s center field jumping jacks to Julia Child’s critique of the famous Fenway Frank (“thin and pale”), 365 Oddball Days in Red Sox History covers all the bases. Organized in an attractive page-a-day format, it delivers anecdotes, player biographies, statistics, and historical information from the Cy Young era right up to the Big Papi-led teams of today.

Until 2004, when the Boston Red Sox won their first World Series Championship in 86 years, the team had been plagued by the Curse of the Bambino, a mythical drought attributed to the team's loss of Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees...

When the Boston Elevated Railway Company broke ground for the Cambridge Subway in May 1909, its intention was to provide the cities of Boston and Cambridge with the finest and most efficient rapid-transit system of the time...