My book got a rave review today from The Irish Times of Dublin, Ireland!
Written by former Boston Phoenix sports editor and Boston Herald-American Red Sox beat reporter George Kimball, the book review states:
"Gutlon argues that the Red Sox were cursed, all right. For more than 80 years they were cursed by a policy of institutionalized racism and a mind-boggling litany of wrong-headed business decisions ...
"Although he is a professional journalist by trade, Gutlon is first and foremost a lifelong Red Sox fan, and what he brings to the table in his eminently readable new book is a comprehensive accumulation of anecdotal evidence delivered from that perspective – the winning argument, if you will, in a hypothetical bar-room debate on the subject ...
"If nothing else, the book makes it abundantly clear that the Red Sox exorcised the ghosts of the past by winning the 2004 World Series (and repeating as champions in 2007) despite their sordid history, not because of it, and with the passage of time the old Red Sox regime will likely be viewed as one of those imponderable chicken-and-egg conundrums: Were they racists because they were stupid, or stupid because they were racists?"
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