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Summary: Fun to peruse but who choose the dust cover?
Comment: I would love to know who choose that dust cover. There is the Green Monstah. Certainly an icon. Three icons played that wall in my lifetime. Two hall of famers Ted and Yaz,and a should be hall of famer Jim Rice, and pictured is a montreal expo.
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Summary: Sweet!
Comment: A very cool and nostalgic view of Fenway through words and pictures. The book was written when they thought Fenway park was going to be torn down. It still stands today but the writers wrote from their hearts since they thought they were saying their last goodbyes wich makes it a great read.
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Summary: I didn't need to know. ...
Comment: Why the fixation on the men's room at Fenway, Danny Boy? I thought those revealing pictures were insensitive and disgusting, and can't be justified by a Mapplethorpian defense of their artistry.
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Summary: Better than being there (Almost)
Comment: When I got this book from my bro, I really was glad he gave it to me because, This book is so good that it's almost like being there! Full of outstanding photos and outstanding writing by Dan and the essays by people such as Bob Costas , James Earl Jones, Bucky Dent are verry verrry interesting and almost magical. It's so good, I read it in 2 days! I hope they keep Fenway, unless it's absolutly time for it to be torn down, Any baseball fan should get this book, because after Fenway is gone,it's history!
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Summary: wonderful
Comment: As the old addage goes, a picture is worth a thousand words. For fans of baseball, there are a select few "classic" parks left that allow that saying to come to light. Yankee Stadium, replete with all of her splendor and majesty; "The Friendly Confines" of Wrigley Field, her bleacher bums, and the ivy; and, greatest of them all, Fenway Park, the oldest park in the majors left standing.When one sees Fenway park for the first time, one is immediately taken with the GREEN that the park exudes- the well kept grass, the Green Monster, the green bleacher seats, the green of the luxury and broadcast seats behind home plate. One will also be drenched in the history of this grand park- Pesky's Pole, left field (where several of the greatest players of that position donned Red Sox uniforms from Duffy Lewis to Teddy Ballgame to Yaz, and Rice), the left field pole, where Carlton Fisk hit his miraculous home run in '75; the manually operated left field wall scoreboard, complete with the morse code on it stating then-owner Tom Yawkey's name... Fenway Park is a living, breathing archaelogical site.
Famed Boston Globe writer Dan Shaughnessy takes the reader of this book to each part of Fenway Park with remarkably clear and bright pictures, as well as choice anecdotes from former Sox greats like Ted Williams, Yaz, and the Eck, to other notables such as Jim Palmer, Stephen King, and Bob Costas.
It is the pictures, though, that dominate this great book, and what pictures they are. Focusing mainly on the fans, filled with joy, hope, anticipation, concern, angst, (and a Yankee fan giving us the middle finger) the book captures well what it is to be part of Red Sox Nation on any given day at the park. Add to it photos from outside the park on Yawkey Way, filled with vendors, street musicians, scalpers, etc..and those of the Sox themselves, and this book well encompasses a day at Fenway. The old photos of Williams, Ruth, the Royal Rooters, and "Honey Fitz" throwing the 1st pitch as opening day 1912, remind us to Fenway's rich and storied history, as well.
With the future of Fenway Park well in the balance, this book is all the more poignant and worth sitting down and studying. Whether you believe in "progress" or in saving Fenway Park,(I am among the latter) Shaughnessy's book offers the perfect snapshots to either remember Fenway by or to use in your arguments for saving her. Whatever may happen, Fenway Park is an American landmark, and "Fenway" helps to capture her in all her dignity.
As author David Halberstam said: "You go to Fenway and you think, 'Something wonderful's going to happen today.'"
