About this title: ESPNUs beloved Sports Guy replays the years leading up to the Boston Red Sox historic championship season and says goodbye to a lifetime of suffering--at least for now.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ESPN
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781933060057ISBN:1933060050
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Description: Very Good. 1933060131 20115O PB; spine smooth, text clean, cover has slight shelf wear-allow up to 21 business days for standard USPS media m a i l. wt2lbpf. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ESPN Books
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781933060057ISBN:1933060050
Description: New in new dust jacket. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 353 p. Contains: Illustrations. Brand NEW Book and Dustjacket read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ESPN
Date Published: 2005-10-01
ISBN-13:9781933060057ISBN:1933060050
Description: Like New. Like new hardcover in excellent condition with dust jacket intact, non-smoking home, clean text, binding tight, no writing, Christian business. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: ESPN, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781933060057ISBN:1933060050
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Description: Very Good. 1933060131 Paperback, Condition: Very Good; this book is in very good condition with light curve to the spine / light reading creases to the covers. read more
Description: Fine in fine dust jacket. Clean and tight with slight edge wear and shelf wear of the dust jacket. Like New. Text clean with no markings. Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 353 p. Contains: Illustrations. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ESPN Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781933060132ISBN:1933060131
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: ESPN Books
Date Published: 2006
ISBN-13:9781933060132ISBN:1933060131
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hyperion Books, New York
Date Published: 2005
ISBN-13:9781933060057ISBN:1933060050
Description: Near Fine in near fine jacket. How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from Nomar, Pedro, Shawshank, and the 2004 Red Sox. 3rd printing, hardcover, dust jacket; both the book and jacket are in near fine condition. SIGNED with an inscription by the author. 353 pp. read more
Description: Very good. Light wear to edges and pages. Cover and spine show no easily noticeable damage. A tradition of southern quality and service. All books guaranteed at the Atlanta Book Company. read more
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"I'm a big fan of Simmons' columns, but he did so much Red Sox stuff in 2004 that it took a while before I felt like I could read the book without having the experience colored by how overexposed that team became after they won (and it also didn't help that they beat the Rockies in 2007).
Unfortunately, the book has not aged well. It's tough to buy into the hero worship of guys who have since been revealed to be poor role models, especially since part of Simmons' angle is that it's a team worth rooting for because of their chemistry. The jokes hold up well, but the hyperbolic, uncritical love for the Red Sox does not."
"I rooted for the 2004 Red Sox because I was sick of the Yankees and hearing about "the curse". I'm a fan of Simmon's blog on ESPN so his book about the 04 Sox was no surprise, but still very entertaining. By the way, now I'm sick of the Red Sox and would rather root for the Yankees (if I was forced to choose)"
"I don't like the Red Sox OR the Yankees, but I appreciate Simmons' humor and the fact that he's a true Sox fan and not a bandwagoner. I almost died reading pages 265-273, being an Angels fan myself (when you cut us, we bleed too, Bill! We bleed too!)* Incidentally, the season this book highlights marks the season I really, and I mean really, started to dislike the Red Sox. What I do like is Simmons' approach to being a fan. And I will give him this... he is more emotionally invested in his teams than almost anyone I know. So five stars for writing like a true fan, but minus two because I just cannot stand the Red Sox.
*I remember watching those painful games, seeing my team choke, and then actually hoping the Yankees would win because I was so bitter about that loss. And this wasn't the last time the Halos would choke against the Sox. Ugh. Also, this applies with the 2008 Lakers/Celtics NBA Finals. I do not like Boston."
"This book is a series of columns written by the author (who is currently a columnist for espn.com) about what it was like to see the Red Sox win the World Series for the first time in 86 years. It is that actual columns written at the time with commentary written a few years later. The book is at times brutally funny (like when the author describes the "Tom Cruise face". Basically he's trying to look sad when Goose dies in Top Gun but it really looks like he is trying to take a dump) and at other times touchingly sad (like when the author debates whether he should raise his child to root for his team because being a Red Sox fan can be so painful).
One reason I read books is to be transported to another person's reality (whether made up or real) and to see his perspective. This book gives me a glimpse into the life of someone who has cheered for a team all his life but the team keeps losing in tragic fashion. Someone who begins to fear that he might live a full life and never see his team win. It gives me a perspective that I could never have had on my own. In the end I really sympathized for him and am now a little more glad that the Red Sox did finally win.
In fact, I might just now root for the Cubs. (OK, maybe not!)"
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