* Review: Red Sox reveries

August 28, 2008

From Wicked Locale Orleans, a Cape Cod-based outfit, this review of Nick Cafardo’s 100 Things Red Sox Fans Should Know & Do before They Die and Faithful To Fenway, by Michael Ian Borer.

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There is little in Cafardo’s retelling of Red Sox history that the diehards don’t already know, but it is not Cafardo’s intention to write a detailed history of the Red Sox. His goal is to entertain longtime fans and to whet the appetites of those who want to delve deeper into all things Red Sox. In this he succeeds.

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Borer’s book is scholarly, with enough popular culture in it to interest the serious fan, but probably not the casual fan or the beginner.

These two books fall in at opposite ends of the spectrum of what’s available to Red Sox fans, and each is worthy, in its own way, of a place in the Red Sox Nation library.
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