Through their triumphs and downfalls, no major league club has had a more colorful history than the Boston Red Sox. Originally published in 1947 as part of G. P. Putnam's Sons fifteen legendary major league team histories, and aided by twenty-seven photographs of legendary players, Frederick G. Lieb's The Boston Red Sox chronicles the club's early years from its founding as the Pilgrims in 1901 through the 1946 season. In the American League's infancy, Boston was a city of champions, winning pennants in 1903, 1904, 1912, ...
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Through their triumphs and downfalls, no major league club has had a more colorful history than the Boston Red Sox. Originally published in 1947 as part of G. P. Putnam's Sons fifteen legendary major league team histories, and aided by twenty-seven photographs of legendary players, Frederick G. Lieb's The Boston Red Sox chronicles the club's early years from its founding as the Pilgrims in 1901 through the 1946 season. In the American League's infancy, Boston was a city of champions, winning pennants in 1903, 1904, 1912, 1915, 1916, and 1918. In 1903, the underdog Red Sox, still the Pilgrims at that time, prevailed against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the first World Series, and went on to garner the title of World Champions five more times by 1918. These were the prosperous years when the roster included such luminaries as Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Duffy Lewis, Harry Hooper, and Cy Young. Jimmy Collins was the club's first manager, while such players as Bill Dinneen, Buck Freeman, Lou Criger, and Patsy Dougherty added to Boston's rich baseball heritage. But glory proved fleeting in Boston. Following Ed Barrow's World Series championship of 1918, the Red Sox twice changed ownership, lost star players to the wealthy Yankees in the process, and finished in the cellar nine out of eleven years from 1922 to 1932. New hope came when multimillionaire Tom Yawkey purchased the Red Sox in 1933. Through the costly additions of such stars as Joe Cronin, Lefty Grove, and Wes Ferrell, Yawkey restored the club to the first division. But a pennant victory eluded him until 1946 when a new set of stars--Ted Williams, Tex Hughson, Bobby Doerr, Dave Ferriss, Johnny Pesky, and Dom DiMaggio--emerged from the Red Sox farm system to regain glory for Boston. "The franchise in almost every one of its eras, as Lieb shows us over and over in his richly documented narrative, relied on one magical ballplayer who would rise above all others, flourish for a time, and then, for one reason or another--money being the usual reason--be discarded," says Al Silverman in his new foreword to this edition. Through each era, covering each champion, Lieb was in the press box documenting all of the action and anecdotes now contained in this lively volume.
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Like New. Size: 5x0x8; A nearly new copy, square and tight with no creases or splits. Contents fresh and clean, not showing any pen-marks. Not from a library so no such stamps or labels. Thus a tidy book in very presentable condition.
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1947 Putnam Press hardcover, no jacket. Good solid copy, mild to moderate reading/age wear, no DJ if issued, may have some light markings or exowner inscription. We take great pride in accurately describing the condition of our books and media, ship within 48 hours, and offer a 100% money back guarantee. Customers purchasing more than one item from us may be entitled to a shipping discount.
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Good. G.P. Putnams Sons (Van Rees Press); New York, 1947. Hardcover. A Good, red cloth binding with tan lettering on spine, binding intact, discoloration to boards and spine, some handling/rub marks to boards, crimping to spine edges, bit of wear to board corners, deckle fore-edge, age toning to pages, bit of scattered foxing to text block edges, some biblichor, discoloration to pastedowns/endpapers, spine lean, in a Good, some handling/scuff marks to panels, edge/corner wear, several tears and chips along edges, all four flap corners neatly clipped, clear taped tear top front panel and top front flap, couple of tears clear taped on verso, sunned panels and flaps, Mylar protected, Dust wrapper. A good and unmarked copy. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 257pp., b&w illustrations. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. The picture on the listing page is of the actual book for sale. Additional Scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.
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Very good in good dust jacket. 1947 edition with DJ. Binding strong, pages tight. No marks or writing, DJ shows moderate wear with chipping and edge tears
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Fair. No Jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Fair copy with some general wear. binding is tight. red boards with some very light soiling and rubbing. some pages have a small stain at top edge, not touching any text on any page. no markings in text. some scattered foxing. 257 pages.
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Good++, Good++ 8VO, 261 pgs., B/W Photos, Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. Very nice red cloth boards with title in white on spine. Light shelf wear. Irregularly torn page edges on pages 220 & 221, otherwise text is clean. Red and white photo illustrated dust jacket is chipped at corners and spine ends. Rubbed edges. Some soil and tanning. Looks good in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.
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Near Fine. This is a reprint of the G. P. Putnam's Sons book first published in 1947. There is a new Forword by Al Silverman and a new index compiled by the bibliography committee of the Society For American Baseball Research. As new except for a remainder mark.
