Fenway Saved [Hardcover]

Bill Nowlin (Author), Mike Ross (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: May 15, 1999

This is a lovingly drawn portrait, in photographs and text, of Boston's fabled Fenway Park. The home field of the Boston Red Sox, Fenway was built in 1912 and is the oldest major league stadium in use today. It has seen the exploits of baseball greats from early heroes like Babe Ruth, Ty Cobb, and Shoeless Joe Jackson to the golden age of Ted Williams, Mickey Mantle, and the DiMaggio brothers, Dom and Joe, right up to today's current crop of superstars. Celebrating the park itself, and especially the quirkiness that has endeared it to the hearts of millions of baseball fans for three generations, Fenway Saved features interviews, essays, and the unique, never-before-published photographs of Mike Ross. Plans are underway to replace Fenway Park. This book helps to, in one sense, save Fenway for those who have enjoyed, even loved it, these many years.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Sports Masters (May 15, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1583820205
• ISBN-13: 978-1583820209
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 8.8 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.7 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,449,851 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Author of more than 30 Red Sox-related books and an avid reader of baseball, travel, and mystery books.

Co-founder of Rounder Records, America's most active independent record label specializing in roots music - now celebrating our 41st year!

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars The stuff that dreams are made of, July 9, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Fenway Saved (Hardcover)

About the new Fenway book - never mind what Humphrey Bogart said about the Maltese Falcon - this is the stuff that dreams are made of. The photos are excellent - none of the run-of-the-mill shots of dugouts and locker rooms. This is all about the mystique of Fenway - what makes it as Roger Angell has described it "the best place in the world to watch baseball." Good stories abound. The book connects beautifully with all the nostalgia that mightily surrounds the place.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Wonderfully sentimental...fascinating insights!, June 13, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Fenway Saved (Hardcover)

I recently received this book from an avid Red Sox fan and was gratefully surprised. Being a Red Sox fan myself since childhood, I quickly found myself back experiencing the sights and sounds and smells of Fenway and recall sitting in the bleachers, the smell of beer and cigars, the Wall, Carl Yastrzemski... I was there, too, at the Impossible Dream game and it brought back memories of the high pitched excitement, the fans running onto the field to get close to their heroes and driving home yelling out the window of the car "we're #1" to all of Boston who was doing the same.

I enjoyed learning about Fenway's history, what makes Fenway tick and the passion of the people who take pride in their work and do what it takes to make this baseball stadium feel like home. For I still make my yearly visits to Fenway and it always feels like home.

Though this book is about Fenway Park, it captures the essence of the "baseball experience" that so many people love and what makes it so.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars AN EXCELLENT GIFT BOOK ON FENWAY PARK, May 16, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Fenway Saved (Hardcover)

I had just finished reading another recent book called just FENWAY, and then I found this one. I'm not sure which I like better. Both are very colorful gift-type books, crammed with loads of first-rate photos. I think they're pretty comparable overall. This book had more interesting photos of parts of Fenway Park itself, and certainly the text was stronger about the park, how unique it is, and how it affects the way baseball is played there. The other book had more pretty, romantic shots of fans in the stands and that sort of thing, plus the terrific cover shot. I give them both 5 stars.