[4G] Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox

Posted by Douglas Charles on February 24th, 2011 at 3:40 pm

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REMEMBERING FENWAY PARK [4G] Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox Time to change gears a little bit here in [4G]. We’ve been on quite an electronic run as of late, but let’s slow our roll a little bit and do something old-fashioned. Reading. I know, crazy, huh? Well if you’re a fan of sports history we have something today you’re really going to like — Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox by Harvey Frommer.

This amazing tome, which celebrates the 100th anniversary of the timeless venue is something any baseball fan will enjoy, even if the Carmines aren’t their favorite squad. Remembering Fenway is full of anecdotes from the likes of Bobby Doerr, Luis Tiant, Dom DiMaggio, Johnny Pesky, Dwight Evans, Jimmy Piersall, Fred Lynn, Terry Francona, Pumpsie Green, Dan Shaughnessy, Bill Lee, Jim Lonborg, Leigh Montville, Don Zimmer, Dennis Eckersley, Jon Miller, Michael Dukakis, and more.

Also included in Remembering Fenway are discussions about Babe Ruth’s debut in 1914, the Yawkey era, Ted Williams’ .406 average in ’41, the “Impossible Dream” season of 1967, Nuns’ Day, the legendary Fisk homer of the ’75 World Series, the animosity between the bleachers and the box seats, the view from the scoreboard, the eternal rivalry with the New York Yankees, and so much more.

Sound entertaining? It is. And we have two copies of this 240 page masterpiece of baseball history to give away, so…

To be entered to win your very own copy of Remembering Fenway Park: An Oral and Narrative History of the Home of the Boston Red Sox (each a $45 value!!) all you have to do is keep a watchful eye on our new Guyism Tumblr where we’ll be doing our next round of sweet giveaways.

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Douglas Charles Douglas Charles, aka "DC Scrap," is the managing editor of Guyism.com. His experience includes operating an assortment sports and entertainment Web sites over the past decade, but his specialty is discovering sexy women from all over the world that he knows he will never have a chance with, let alone meet - a quality he shares with 99.99% of his readers.