* Neo-classics?

October 19, 2009

Several new titles consider World Series past. Two — by Joe Posnanski and Mark Frost — deal with the 1975 Red Sox-Reds contest, which was highlighted by Carlton Fisk’s game-winner in the sixth game, the closest to that point Boston had come to winning a title since 1918.  The next most recent is Perfect, by Lew Paper, which examines the participants in Don Larsen’s 1956 no-hitter. Then we go all the back to that 1918 match-up between the Red Sox and the Cubs in Sean Deveney’s The Original Curse, which ponders whether Chicago threw those games, setting up the Black Sox scandal the following year. And finally, we have Mike Vaccaro’s The First Fall Classic, another Red Sox feature, this time against the New York Giants.

All that was a long way to get around to the fact that former NY Times sportswriter and author Gerald Eskenazi reviews the titles by Vaccaro, Posnanski, and Paper in this Wall Street Journal piece.

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