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Don't Call Them Crazy!
300 pages, 75 photos, 52 profiles, 6 X 9 Quality Paperback, ISBN: 978-0-9883503-4-2, Distributed by Baker & Taylor and North Country Books, $19.99. Publication Date: June 1, 2013.
What is it about Boston Red Sox fans?
Rich and poor, old and young, famous and infamous, they hail from New England, of course, but also from Saskatchewan, Uzbekistan, Japan and the Ukraine. Author Greg Pearson has collected half a hundred of them who told their tales of the Bambino’s curse, Bucky Dent, Bill Buckner and that history-making championship season: 2004.
For these fans, the Red Sox are all tied up with family history, romance and the meaning of life. Obsessive? Of course. But these are true people stories, fascinating to read, people who share a common insanity.
The book chronicles the baseball obsessions of Keith Lockhart, conductor of the Boston Pops; E.J. Dionne, a columnist for the Washington Post; guitarist John Pizzarelli, Jim Calhoun, the men's basketball coach at the University of Connecticut and Linda Ruth Tosetti, the granddaughter of Babe Ruth.
Among the other fans profiled in the book are these:
Kathy, Vince and Timothy Joyce of Charlestown, RI.
The devoted couple: delivery day or opening day?
On April 6, 2001, Kathy and Vince had to decide between Timothy's birthday and Opening Day at Fenway, when the two dates conficted. The decision: delivery can wait a few days.
Ian Noyes makes a call to the bull pen during a Fenway visit.
The captain of Kids Nation
Ian Noyes of Wolcott, Vt. is one of 12 captains of Red Sox Kids Nation and gets to wear a red "C" on his uniform.
The Replica Stadium
Little Fenway Park in Essex, Vermont, a one-fourth scale Fenway Park, complete with a Green Monster, Pesky Pole, CITGO sign and retired jersey numbers hanging in right field, the brain-child of Pat O'Connor.
You can read more about all of these fans and many more in Fenway Fanatics: 50 Boston Red Sox Fans Tell Their Stories by Greg Pearson, available in book stores everywhere on June 1. Also, available on Amazon.com and the Surry Cottage Books web site.
About the author
Greg Pearson has spent his career in newspapers, writing and editing for the Manchester (Conn.) Herald, the Holyoke (Mass.) Transcript-Telegram and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. He grew up in Durham, Connecticut, where he found out about the Red Sox shortly after learning to read. He and his wife, Michele, live in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin.
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