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From the Red Sox component of MLB.com, this profile of Nowlin, who not only writes about the team, but founded Rounder Records, which specializes in Folk-type stuff.

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From the blog: Wrigley Field And from the book by the same name: The Boston Red Sox Though many would argue that the Chicago Cubs are the top club for white people, the Boston Red Sox remain the undisputed white franchise. In fact, were it not for the players, there would be no recorded instances […]

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* Now, that's scary

October 18, 2008

Stephen King at the Tuesday night game between the Red Sox and Rays. Note the book title: When Will There Be Good News? None to be found that night, since Tampa was beatin’ the bejesus out of Boston.

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* 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. Upshots: There is little in Cafardo’s retelling of Red Sox history that the diehards don’t already know, but it is not Cafardo’s […]

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In 2006, Roy Green published 101 Reasons to Love the Yankees and 101 Reasons to Love the Red Sox. Released by Stewart, Tabori, and Chang, these were nice little books (a similar book about the Mets also came out that year), full of pictures and brief texts about the author’s favorite moments and people for […]

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This blogger at Soxlinks does a better job than I at parsing the anti-Bradley review from the Boston Phoenix.

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The former Boston Globe columnist was the subject of this nepotistic interview in his former employer’s Sunday Magazine for his new book, Red Sox Rule: Terry Francona and Boston’s Rise to Dominance.

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Red Sox Spring Training A Quarter Century Ago, by Dan Valenti (Rounder Books). This review/author profile appeared on Reformer.com, the web-presence of the Vermont publication.

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From FragileFreddy’s Red Sox blog, this review on Johnny Peksy’s Diary of a Red Sox Season. Upshot: Overall the book is a brief but fun read and one I definitely recommend. You won’t learn a lot that is new to you about the Red Sox but you will learn about Johnny Pesky and you will […]

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From libraryjournal.com, two brief reviews of Faithful to Fenway: Believing in Boston, Baseball, and America’s Most Beloved Ballpark and Your Brain on Cubs: Inside the Heads of Players and Fans. Interesting to note that these are two of the most historically snake-bitten teams when it comes to the post-season. (Thanks to reader Greg Spira.)

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