Customer Reviews

The Boston Red Sox : 100 Years -- The Official Retrospective

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Nice pictures make this coffee table book attractive to flip through the first couple of times, but the writing is mostly sanitized filler that doesn't tell much you haven't read elsewhere and better and at less than 200 pages the book is a bit less than advertised. There are four or five other Red Sox books out there that give much more bang for the buck: "Fenway" has better photos, as do a number of Ted Williams' books, "Red Sox Century" has many more pictures and tells the definitive history, "Tales from the Red Sox Dugout" has all the anecdotes. Basically, a Red Sox Lite book for fans who don't like to read. If you must have all things Red Sox and already have everything else, get it, otherwise there are better choices.

The above review nails this book on the mark. Excellent pictures, but the writing leaves something to be desired. There are nice charts/graphs/timelines, however. Definitely NOT a definitive history of the Red Sox, but a nice addition if you have a Red Sox library of books.

Let me add my 2¢ (for 2 stars). The pictures are great, only it would have been nice to know WHO the pictures were of. I thought it would be a 100 year history, but I was wrong. What they wrote about was informative, heart-tugging and interesting. There just wasn't enough of it to justify the subtitle "100 years. The Official Retrospective."

Ken Leiker, Alan Schwarz, and Mark Vancil wrote this book The Boston Red Sox. Although these people wrote a lot of this book, the Red Sox players themselves had a lot to say. This book was about the Red sox team, and Fenway Park. A major is about past red sox players, and the stars on the team in 2001. There was a lot of good information and statistics on the players. For instance did you know that, after the game in Fenway Park some of the away teams go into the Green Monster scoreboard, and sign there names. This book wasn't a book that would drag on, each page told another great fact, or quote. The photography was incredible. Nice clear, easy to see colors, and some very exciting action shots. Read it if you like baseball, and he Boston Red Sox. This book was a home run; I highly suggest you purchase this book.

This is the feel good book of the century as far as Red Sox retrospectives go -- a true Sox fan could only buy this book for the cover (or, as I did, for the great graphics inside). Beautifully designed throughout, this "official" retrospective lacks the heart of the Red Sox mystique: the need for card-carrying members of the Red Sox Nation to ultimately mourn the great losses endured over the past 100 years and still believe. I had to crack open Shaughnessy's "The Curse of the Bambino" to right myself.

This book is a great look at the Boston Red Sox whom are finally shed of some negative influences and are hopefully poised to win their first championship in ages! By the way, YANKEES SUCK!