Customer Reviews

The Red Sox Encyclopedia, Limited Edition

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This book is an embarrassment to both the publisher and author - full of historical and typographical errors. A major disappointment.

This book is a total hatchet job. Both publisher and author should be embarrassed. It contains so many errors, it is useless. This is the perfect example of a book published soley because if the put the name of the Red Sox on something, some baseball fans will buy anything.

The author commits more errors here than Don Buddin. And the photographic reproductions are of newspaper quality at best. A disappointment.

proved to be a major disappointment. The other reviewers have hit home runs in their reviews of this book. This could have been a wonderful book, but instead it is nothing but rehash.

I was so looking forward to this book and it was such an utter waste. First of all there were glaring factual errors, second of all about 10 pages were just missing and lastly there is so much written about the Red Sox that this book offered nothing of any value. A complete and utter waste of time and so poor compared to the Yankees encyclopedia.

I was looking forward to the release of this book for months. Unfortunately, it was a major disappointment.

Unlike other team encyclopedias, this one focuses on statistical recaps rather than providing the anecdotes that make following baseball so enjoyable. For instance, the book mentions Jim Lonborg's decline after the 1967 season, but doesn't explain why (he broke his leg in an off-season skiing accident). Also, it has dozens of factual errors (Rick Aguilera started with the Mets, not the Yankees).

It's a shame that such a half-hearted effort was made. True Red Sox fans will be tremendously disappointed by this book.

I am one of the red sox's biggest fans and this book was very informative...Go Pedro!!! I didn't know a lot of things about the red sox, i just looked at the presant and ignored the past. This opened my eyes to the real Friendly Fenway Park. I hate the Yankees!!!!

Redmount has covered a long history of the Boston Red Sox comprehensively and correctly. This book will settle arguements about stats, players, events involved with this remarkable organization. Its fun to read and fact-packed.