Showing Fenway 1912: The Birth of a Ballpark, a Championship Season, and Fenway's Remarkable First Year by Glenn Stout

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2011 Pages: 416 Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Advance Praise forFenway. 1912 This is A book for anyone who cares about the storied Boston Red Sox about their one-hundred-year-old bandbox of a stadium . about the remarkable championship season of 1912. about the street-level history of Boston. and about why baseball will forever be the all-American pastime. This is a book for all of us. - Larry Tye. author of SATCHEL: The Life and Times of an American Legend Glenn Stout has done the impossible: he has put an end to the seemingly bottomless genre that is Fenway Park books. We now need no more. We get not pomp and circumstance. but the bones and blueprint of a legendary ballpark - topped with a star-filled World Series that still endures. He doesn't pretend history is straw hats and cigars. but gives you real people. real baseball. and (the best part...