RED SOX CENTURY

ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF RED SOX BASEBALL

For a century now, the Boston Red Sox have meant many
different things to many different people, eliciting elation,
frustration, nostalgia, nausea, confidence, anger,
bewilderment, love, and loss, often all at once. But no matter
the ups and downs, in their long, storied history the Red Sox
have always managed to provide us with one thing that is
certain -- they are the most interesting team ever to have
taken the field. RED SOX CENTURY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF
RED SOX BASEBALL tells the Red Sox story in its entirety for
the first time, from the team's inception in 1901 and its early
peak in 1918, when it won its fifth and last World Series;
through the glory years, which saw the rise of such greats as
Cy Young, Babe Ruth, Teddy Ballgame, and Yaz and which
witnessed the "Impossible Dream" of 1967 and near misses in
1975 and 1986; to the present, when the Sox are still chasing
that elusive sixth world championship -- a championship that
fate seems not to want them to have. In these pages, many a
Red Sox myth is debunked, and many stories are told for the
first time.