Francona: The Red Sox Years

Francona: The Red Sox Years

Francona: The Red Sox Years

Francona: The Red Sox Years

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Overview

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. “Eloquent and dazzling,” the story of the legendary baseball manager’s tenure with the Boston Red Sox (Philadelphia Daily News).

When Terry Francona took over as manager of the Boston Red Sox in 2004, the storied franchise hadn’t won a World Series championship in eighty-six years. Led by Francona, the team won two over the course of four years. During the full eight years of Francona’s tenure, the Red Sox were transformed from “cursed” into one of the most successful and profitable teams in baseball history—only to fall back to last place as soon as Francona was gone.

Francona: The Red SoxYears lets readers in on the inner workings of the Red Sox clubhouse like no book has ever done before. From the highs of the World Series to the lows of the final months of the 2011 season—the most epic collapse of a team in baseball history—this book features the never-before-told stories about Sox fans’ favorite players, moments, wins, and losses.

“A scorched-earth memoir . . . [that] touches fleetingly on steroid use, sabermetrics, and Michael Jordan’s stint in the minor leagues . . . but saves its heaviest artillery for the owners . . . [and] Theo Epstein backs him up.” —The New York Times Book Review

“It’s not often that baseball aficionados and gossip gluttons can plunk down on a shared portion of outfield grass with the same book for an afternoon of readerly delight, but Francona can bridge those kinds of differences.” —The Boston Globe

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780547928265
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 11/21/2023
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 386
Sales rank: 410,536
File size: 12 MB
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About the Author

Terry "Tito" Francona was a first baseman and outfielder in the majors from 1981 to 1990. After retiring as a player, he managed several minor league teams in the 1990s before managing the Philadelphia Phillies for four seasons. In 2004, Francona was hired to manage the Boston Red Sox, and that year he led the team to its first World Series championship since 1918. He won another World Series with Boston in 2007 and continued to manage the team until the end of the 2011 season. He is now a commentator for ESPN, joining in on their Sunday Night Baseball telecast and contributing to ESPN.com.
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. 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.

Table of Contents

1 "Can't you guys do one thing right?" 1

2 "I'm Mr. Francona's son and he wanted me to come over and say hello" 10

3 "They're not going to fire a guy over one mistake" 30

4 "He kind of blew us away…. Is the guy too nice?" 46

5 "We'd better win" 66

6 "This is not acceptable" 89

7 "Just crazy enough to think we can do this" 109

8 2005 - "Everywhere we went, people were bowing and shit" 128

9 2006 - "We will take care of your son" 149

10 2007 - "They were all into getting the trophy and they didn't even know I was there" 172

11 2008 - "This will not help us win" 198

12 2009 - "This is like a reality TV show" 226

13 2010 - "We need to start winning in more exciting fashion" 251

14 2011 - "I feel like I let you down" 271

15 "Somebody went out of their way to hurt me" 311

16 2012 - "I guess we should have won a third World Series" 329

Acknowledgments 344

Index 350

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