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

Description

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.

Frederick C. Klein is a longtime writer and editor for the Wall Street Journal, where he originated the On Sports column. He is a freelance writer and the author of many books, including several other entries in the For the Love of . . . series. He lives in Scottsdale, Arizona. Mark Anderson is an illustrator whose work has appeared on the back cover of National Geographic, the New Yorker, and Time and inside the Atlantic Monthly, BusinessWeek, Harvard Business Review, Outside, and many other periodicals. He is the illustrator and designer of Triumph Books' popular For the Love of . . . series. He lives in Chicago. Johnny Pesky has served the Red Sox in virtually every capacity--as an All-Star player, a coach, a manager, a broadcaster, and a goodwill ambassador--over parts of seven decades. A Boston legend, Pesky has worn the uniform longer than anyone else, and his namesake Pesky Pole marks the right field foul line at Fenway Park.