Synopses & Reviews
'Best-selling author Dan Shaughnessy and Pulitzer Prize--winning photographer Stan Grossfeld teamed up to create this pictorial tribute to Fenway -- the last of the grand old ballparks. With its ominous Green Monster, the lone red seat that marks Ted Williams\'s record-setting longest home run, the hand-operated scoreboard, and the fishbowl-style luxury \"600 Club,\" Fenway Park has inspired more lavish praise and outrageous comparison than any American sports arena in history. And it has broken more hearts. Said David Halberstam, \"You go to Fenway and you think, \'Something wonderful\'s going to happen today.\' \"Beautifully illustrated and including reflections from an illustrious list of fans, coaches, and players as well as a host of fascinating Fenway facts, FENWAY: A BIOGRAPHY IN WORDS AND PICTURES creates an experience almost as magical as walking through the gates on game day.'
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"A last look at the cracker-box stadium of green stands and a giant green left-field wall that's housed some of the most exciting and heartbreaking moments in sports."
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'\"Sparkling and upbeat, evoking not the park\'s gloomy history but its charming eccentricities and ever startling greenness - a place where it has always been heaven to be miserable.\"'
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"A glossy, colorful, large-format album that celebrates the majors' oldest park (1912), the last of the single-tier stadiums."
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"A well-done photographic tribute to one of the last classical ballparks...Dan Shaughnessy provides an elegant, knowledgeable main text."
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'\"Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy bridges the spaces between the photos with knowledgeable commentary and myriad Fenway facts. For instance, the first ceremonial ball was tossed out by the grandfather of President John F. Kennedy.\"'
About the Author
'Dan Shaughnessy is an award-winning columnist for the Boston Globe and the author of several sports books, including The Curse of the Bambino, a best-selling classic now in its twenty-first printing. Seven times Shaughnessy has been voted one of America\'s top ten sports columnists by Associated Press Sports Editors and named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year. He has appeared on Good Morning America, The Today Show, The Early Show, CNN, Nightline, NPR, Imus in the Morning, ESPN, HBO, and many others.He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.Stan Grossfeld is a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist for the BOSTON GLOBE. His books include SPRING TRAINING, EYES OF THE GLOBE: TWENTY-FIVE YEARS OF PHOTOGRAPHY FROM THE BOSTON GLOBE, NANTUCKET: THE OTHER SEASON, THE WHISPER OF STARS: A SIBERIAN JOURNEY, and TWO ON THE RIVER.'