Win it for... is a tribute to a most underrated virtue – loyalty. It is a sonnet to a team, the Boston Red Sox, that has been a defining obsession for an entire region of people for more than five generations. The book features a collection of searing and heartfelt postings from hundreds of fans who wanted to dedicate a Red Sox victory in the 2004 American League playoffs and World Series to some unforgettable people in their lives. On the morning of the seventh game of the epic Red Sox-Yankees American League Championship Series, Shaun Kelly, who wrote the book’s preface and is a member of the internet message board called "The Sons of Sam Horn," began pounding away on his computer keyboard crafting his own particular "mojo" that he hoped would ultimately defeat the despised Yankees. He urged other members of the message board, some 1,900 strong, to do the same –urging the Red Sox to win it for the special people in their lives who had loved the team through th! ick and thin. From the grateful man who lost his brother in Okinawa 60 years ago to the sibling who dedicated a Sox victory to her brother who perished on September 11, 2001, there were scores of tributes from the populace of Red Sox Nation, young and old. Each of the more than 1,000 postings added something unique to what became a compelling Red Sox mosaic, the best of which are collected in Win it for... In the end, the individual contributors revealed something extraordinary about themselves. The postings would end up being featured in newspapers from Boston to Los Angeles, from Miami to Chicago. Peter Jennings would include it in his nightly news report on ABC, while the gang on ESPN’s "Baseball Tonight" would mention it during a discourse on Red Sox Nation. Featuring a foreword by Red Sox pitching hero Curt Schilling, nearly all of the proceeds from the emotional Win it for... will be split between the Jimmy Fund (the Dana Farber Cancer Institute) and Curt’s Pitch for ALS (Schilling’! s charity to help Lou Gehrig Disease research). The reader is invited to settle down into a favorite chair, sit back, and have a box of tissues close by for when the tears start flowing.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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This is not just about baseball,
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This review is from: Win it for...: What a World Championship Means to Generations of Red Sox Fans (Hardcover)
"Win It For" begins about baseball, but it ends up being much, much more. The many vignettes contained in this book create touching pictures of various people with various stories who all happen to share the love of one team. At times humorous, at times touching to the point of tears, "Win It For" kept me reading - despite the fact that its short-essay format makes it the ideal coffee table book to pick up and put down at will.
I highly recommend "Win It For." I'm a lifelong Red Sox fan who can identify with the passion all the book's contributors have, but I'm also a person who can identify with the various stories that people told.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
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"Win it for...." a great book,
This review is from: Win it for...: What a World Championship Means to Generations of Red Sox Fans (Hardcover)
This is reality TV like you've never experienced it on TV! It captures the love, passion, dedication, anxiety, and loyalty of generations of Red Sox fans watching their team finally beat the hated Yankees and go on to win a World Series for the first time in 86 years AS IT'S HAPPENING - as a thread on a Web site. This book transcends the Red Sox. Heck, it pretty much transcends all sports and taps into basic and universal emotions we've all experienced when the unreachable suddenly becomes reachable. In this case, it opened up a watershed of 86-years of pent-up emotions, including family dynamics and loved ones shaped in part by their common love for this team. And it came pouring out as Web postings that are truly from the heart. A superb book!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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Been there, read that,
This review is from: Win it for...: What a World Championship Means to Generations of Red Sox Fans (Hardcover)
And it's well worth the money. As a lurker (someone who hasn't been approved as a member) of SoSH, I followed the postings on a daily basis, from its inception, to the the last entry. A poignant reminder of how red the Sox Nation bleeds.
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