Frommer adds to his already-impressive oeuvre of baseball books with Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox
This colorful coffee-table edition bookends nicely with his 2008 release, Remembering Yankee Stadium: An Oral and Narrative History of “The House That Ruth Built”
I enjoy the comments by the behind-the-scenes people at these legendary ballparks. Players come and go, but many of these folk stay with their respective teams for years as ushers, secretaries, concessionaires, etc. Then there are the fans, and although their anecdotes are quite similar in many ways (“I had never seen the grass so green,” “It was the biggest thing I’d ever seen,”), they manage to be different enough, and that’s the product of Frommer’s sharp editing.
I interviewed the author a couple of years back about his Yankee Stadium book. Here are a couple of YouTube links to more recent conversations:
And an excerpt from the Fenway book.
A sampling of other titles in the Frommer section of the library includes:
- Growing Up Baseball: An Oral History
- Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball
- Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry
- Rickey and Robinson
- Big Apple Baseball: An Illustrated History from the Boroughs to the Ballparks
is available on Amazon.com,
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