Boston Red Sox fans can never hear enough or read enough about their 2004 World Championship team. Veteran baseball author Saul Wisnia does a wonderful job of meeting that need with his new book MIRACLE AT FENWAY: The Inside Story of the Boston Red Sox 2004 Championship Season (St. Martin’s Press). Wisnia’s premise is that an event of this magnitude require [...]
Former Red Sox third baseman Bill Muller delivered one of the more important RBI in team history when he drove in Dave Roberts from second base to tie the Yankees 4-4 in the ninth inning of Game Four of the 2004 ALCS. Mueller’s clutch single to centerfield kept Red Sox hopes alive for their first World Championship in 86 seasons, and set the table for Big P [...]
Former Red Sox All-Star pitcher Derek Lowe was the winning pitcher in the 2004 series-clinching victories over the Anaheim Angels in the ALDS, the New York Yankees in the ALCS, and the St. Louis Cardinals in the World Series. Lowe is the only pitcher in MLB history to be credited with the victory in three consecutive postseason series. “That was a thrill,” [...]
Kevin Millar was the toast of the town when he played for the Red Sox from 2003 to 2005, so it seemed only natural that, along with Pedro Martinez, he would lead Red Sox fans in a toast to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Fenway Park in 2012. In his own inimitable style, he told the crowd of 36,770, “FenwayPark, we want to thank you for the last 100 years [...]
Red Sox fans who remember the 1967 Impossible Dream season fondly will want a copy of Raymond Sinibaldi’s 1967 Red Sox: The Impossible Dream Season (Arcadia Publishing). Younger Red Sox fans that weren’t around for that magical season will want a copy to learn what they missed. This is the sixth major book published about the 1967 Boston Red Sox (Full discl [...]