From the Babe to the Beards: The Boston Red Sox in the World by Bill Nowlin,Jim Prime

By Bill Nowlin,Jim Prime

With the “Curse” reminiscence, the Boston purple Sox are the 1st staff this century to win 3 global sequence titles. sooner than 2004, an obnoxious Yankees fan may have smirked: The purple Sox on this planet Series? The world’s shortest book!”

In very fact, the purple Sox have performed in twelve international sequence and received 8. Even in the course of their tales 86-year drought, the Sox took 4 sequence to video game Seven ahead of losing.

Lavishly illustrated, From the Babe to the Beards is the results of one other collaboration via invoice Nowlin and Jim Prime—each with greater than a dozen Sox books to their credits. The e-book contains complete video game debts of each one of many seventy four sequence video games performed (to date) and profiles an important participant from each one video game. Supplemented with dozens of photographs and line ratings from each video game, the publication will offer a great and eminently readable spouse because the crew prepares for added sequence within the years to come.

Skyhorse Publishing, in addition to our activities Publishing imprint, are proud to post a extensive diversity of books for readers drawn to sports—books approximately baseball, seasoned soccer, collage soccer, seasoned and school basketball, hockey, or football, we have now a ebook approximately your game or your team.

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