Standing Room Only: Being a Spirited Account of the Baseball in Boston Between Those Years 2004 & 2008

Between Opening Day 2004 and the last pitch of the 2008 season, the Boston Red Sox played 425 games at Fenway Park. Every last one, Sold Out. An Extraordinary time in both Red Sox and baseball history, it leaves behind its championship pennants and World Champion trophies, official programs and souvenir hars and collectors pins, game-used bats and baseballs now entombed in Cooperstown, and the image of each legendary moment now framed under gallery ligthing. And there, whispering out among them, the question: what was it like, to be there? Standing Room Only, a collection of twenty-seven of the greatest games and moments from this unique era, provides an answer. Far more than merely a reminder of how the games were won or lost, each chapter offers the reader a ticket back into the thumping-loud intensity of the experience itself. Here then are all the larger-than-life baseball characters of the age, the furious late inning rallies and the ecstatic walk-off celebrations, the riveting no-hitters, the classic rivalry games, and all those famous October nights beneath the floodlights. All told from the perspective of the grandstands, and with the casual intimacy of the fellow fan who allows the reader to pack in shoulder-to-shoulder among a sold out Fenway Park crowd. To hear the cheers rise up, see the raucous scene unfold, and relive each thrilling moment---just as brilliantly, just as passionately, just as exuberantly as it was lived. Whether as a scrapbook of cherished memories for the Sox fans who experienced it live, or a ticket back in time for any fan of the game and its history, Standing Room Only brings it all back to life under a single cover. Reminding us everafter what it was like, to be there.
ASIN: 0982367201
VSKU: BVV.0982367201.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Longest, A. Knoefel
Binding: Paperback
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