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| Original Title: | Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season |
| ISBN: | 0743267532 (ISBN13: 9780743267533) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | United States of America |
Stewart O'Nan
Paperback | Pages: 445 pages Rating: 3.83 | 4723 Users | 220 Reviews
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| Title | : | Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season |
| Author | : | Stewart O'Nan |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 445 pages |
| Published | : | September 6th 2005 by Scribner (first published December 1st 2004) |
| Categories | : | Sports. Baseball. Nonfiction |
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Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle the upcoming season, one of the most hotly anticipated in baseball history. They would sit together at Fenway. They would exchange emails. They would write about the games. And, as it happened, they would witness the greatest comeback ever in sports, and the first Red Sox championship in eighty-six years. What began as a Sox-filled summer like any other is now a fan's notes for the ages.Rating Of Books Faithful: Two Diehard Boston Red Sox Fans Chronicle the Historic 2004 Season
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I listened to this on audiobook a little at a time. It was fun to hear the day to day details of two everyday baseball fans. I was busily attending almost every September game of the last place but rebuilding 2017 Phillies and it main a fine companion, a partner in crime even. Any story where the Yankees die a horrible death is a happy ending.Anyone who picks this up ought to approach it from the perspective of a baseball fan, first and foremost - otherwise it'll probably be a slog. O'Nan in particular likes to give detailed play-by-plays throughout the regular season, and it's not always riveting reading. I really enjoyed this book because the 2004 Red Sox didn't qualify as favorites, and while they did have Theo Epstein (the fellow who eventually turned the Cubs organization into WS winners in 2016), Terry Francona was a new
Thoroughly enjoyed this book, but maybe mostly for the walks down memory lane it prompted. The magical Red Sox summer of 04 was also the year we moved from baseball-crazy Boston to half-Red-Sox, half-Yankees Connecticut. I spent lots of those first few lonely months in Connecticut (foreign town, husband constantly at work) watching the Red Sox rise, slump, and improbably rise again. The rag-tag long-haired boys of Boston were a great diversion from the sometimes scary acts of moving, sending my
My first thought when I read who the authors were was "Who is Stewart O'Nan? I'm very familiar with Stephen King and know he's a huge Sox fan, but before reading this book I never heard of the other author. If you're not a baseball fan, this book is not for you. If you are, then this book not only gives details of most Sox games of the 2004 season, but also what it meant to the authors. The commentary that King and O'Nan give is great. One of my favorite passages is when O'Nan talks about his
This is the ninth book in my 2013 TBR Pile Challenge, and the only nonfiction. I'd been meaning to read it since it came out in 2005, but I just hadn't been able to make room on my reading list until I signed up for the challenge.Faithful is written as a series of email exchanges, diary entries, and just plain narratives of the 2004 baseball season, following the Boston Red Sox. Stephen King grew up a fan, but Stewart O'Nan came to it later in life, though he's no less avid for being a Red Sox
I'm reading this now to prep for the Red Sox win of the 2007 World Series!--------------Stephen King is hilarious in this chronicle of the first Red Sox WS win in 86 years. O'Nan gives more of a straightforward account, King def steals the show. Great book, esp if you are a Sox fan.
In the dead of winter I start getting all jittery when theres no baseball. Sorry, but football, basketball and hockey just cant fill the void. You know Stephen King has led a charmed life when he finally decides to co-write a fans-eye view of his favorite team and he chooses the season when they finally win the World Series after an 86-year drought. Faithful is an entertaining read, especially for this Red Sox fan who could use a little bit of baseball back in his life. Spring training is just a
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