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    For the Love of the Red Sox: An A-to-Z Primer for Red Sox Fans of All Ages
    For the Love of the Red Sox: An A-to-Z Primer for Red Sox Fans of All Ages
    For the Love of the Red Sox: An A-to-Z Primer for Red Sox Fans of All Ages
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    For the Love of the Red Sox: An A-to-Z Primer for Red Sox Fans of All Ages

    By Frederick C. Klein, Mark Anderson and Johnny Pesky

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    Expressing the passion felt for the Red Sox using all 26 letters of the alphabet accompanied by rhymes, colorful illustrations, and informative text, this tribute to the Boston team explores the sports obsession in a fresh and humorous way. Readers will enjoy fun facts and amusing illustrations of some of the most famous—and infamous—characters in the baseball team's history.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTriumph Books
    Release dateMar 1, 2008
    ISBN9781623685393
    For the Love of the Red Sox: An A-to-Z Primer for Red Sox Fans of All Ages

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    For the Love of the Red Sox - Frederick C. Klein

    A is for

    Again!

    The Sox fans’ cry

    When the Rockies were beaten and

    The trophy held high.

    The Boston Red Sox went 86 years without a World Series triumph but broke that streak with a vengeance by winning baseball’s biggest prize in 2004 and again in 2007.The 2004 team came back from a three-games-to-none deficit to defeat their archrivals, the New York Yankees, in the American League Championship Series, then swept the St. Louis Cardinals in the Series.The 2007 club followed a similar course, falling behind the Cleveland Indians three-games-to-one in the ALCS before rallying, then thumping the Colorado Rockies in a four-game World Series in which it outscored its foe, 29 runs to

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