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From Remembering Fenway Park:
Kids having fun, Opening Day Fenway Park 1956
Brothers DiMaggio: Vince, Dom and Joe (1986)
Big Papi doing his thing
Honoring Smokey Joe Wood (1912)
Casey Stengel shakes hands with Sox legend Joe Cronin
Fans lining up for 'Ladies Day' (1946)
Resplendent Fenway
The Red Seat
1940s in Technicolor at the Fens
Clemens pitches to Manny
Yaz makes spectacular catch against Yankees (1978)
3,000 Hit Celebration for Yaz
Fenway from above
In four World Series 1946, 1967, 1975,1986, the Sox lost in the 7th game of each. Here are ticket stubs from those games.
Obstructed View ticket
Oh, How Cheap Tickets Were Once
Fisk's Pole
Yankees - Red Sox Rivalry
Dice - K
Mel Parnell Baseball Card
1975 World Series Ticket
Game Time
Mickey Mantle and Roger Maris at Fenway, 1960
Ted Williams and Yankee catcher Yogi Berra at Fenway Park, 1960
World Series Programs 1967
1948 Red Sox-Braves Schedule
Old Fenway Park Postcard
Old Fenway Park Postcard
New Fenway Park Opening Program Cover (After Fire)
Ted Williams, Always the Center of Attention
2007 World Series
2007 World Series
Opening Day 1912 Baseball
At 1912 World Series Sox Mascot Jerry McCarthy
DEVELOPING BOOK TOUR EVENTS 2011
April 7 - Fenway Park Writers Series, Commonwealth Hotel, Boston
May 12 - Capital Grille, NYC
May 13 - BLOHARDS/Red Sox bar
Advance Praise:
"Remembering Fenway Park is an elegant, pennant-winning look-back that should warm the hearts of Red Sox fans young and old. Ted, Yaz, Rico, Roger, Nomar, and Big Papi -- they are all there, in the shadow of the Green Monster. What a feeling!"
~ Peter Golenbock, author of Red Sox Nation
"Riveting narrative, great photos, and most important - the words of those who have lived it."
~ Johnny Pesky
Book Description:
Envisioned as a fraternal "twin" to Dr. Harvey Frommer's REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM, the chronologically organized and definitive REMEMBERING FENWAY PARK features
almost 140 voices (two of them 100 years old) , more than 200 images, many never before published. The author's narrative fuses present and past Red Sox players and opponents, fans, media people, ballpark workers like the scoreboard operator and head groundskeeeper, team executives, a nun, a monsignor and a bishop.
Just a taste of REMEMBERING FENWAY PARK'S subject matter includes: the teens in the 20th century when in 1912 Major League Baseball began at Fenway Park and the Red Sox copped their first world championship, through the down times of the twenties when Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees, to the thirties and the arrival of a very young owner Tom Yawkey and the strutting of their stuff by future Hall of Famers like "Teddy Ballgame," Joe Cronin, Lefty Grove, Jimmie Foxx and Bobby Doerr.
The forties witnessed Ted Williams batting .401 in 1941, the Red Sox winning a pennant, night baseball coming to Fenway. The first "Ladies Night" was staged in the fifties and the first black player Elijah "Pumpsie" Green was on the scene. Mel Parnell pitched a no-hitter and Ted Williams slammed his 400th career home run.
In the sixties, the "Splendid Splinter" homered in his final at bat. Yaz came on the scene. Twice in that decade the Sox drew less than 500 to games at Fenway. Dave Morehead twirled a no-hitter. In 1967, the longshot Sox pulled off "The Impossible Dream" winning the pennant. Boston was defeated by the Cincinnati "Big Red Machine" in the 1975 World Series. Bucky Dent hit his "pop fly" homer as the Yankees won the one game playoff in 1978. Carl Yazstremski recorded his 3,000 hit and 400th home run in 1979.
The eighties saw Yaz retire and Roger Clemens arrive on the scene. The Rocket fanned 20 in one game. Wade Boggs was the ultimate hitting machine. The Sox lost the 1986 World Series to the Mets. Morgan Magic was on parade. In the nineties ,the 50th anniversary of Ted Williams hitting over .400 was celebrated, and the movement to "SAVE FENWAY PARK" began. Attendance at Fenway climbed above a record 2 1/2 million. The 70th All-Star Game was staged with the All Century team in place with the star of stars -- Ted Williams, the center of attention.
New ownership was in place in the 21st century. The "Curse of the Bambino" was finally broken as the Red Sox won world championships in 2004 and 2007. No-hitters were pitched by Clay Buchholz and Jon Lester. A new Major League attendance streak was set at Fenway Park. (And REMEMBERING FENWAY PARK was published).
About Harvey Frommer
Dr. Harvey Frommer received his Ph.D. from New York University. Professor Emeritus, Distinguished Professor nominee, Recipient of the "Salute to Scholars Award" at CUNY where he taught writing for many years, the prolific author was cited by the Congressional Record and the New York State Legislature as a sports historian and journalist.
His forty sports books include autobiographies of sports legends Nolan Ryan, Red Holzman and Tony Dorsett, the classics "Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball," "New York City Baseball: 1947-1957," "The New York Yankee Encyclopedia," "A Yankee Century," "Red Sox vs. Yankees: The Great Rivalry" (with Frederic J. Frommer), and "Five O`clock Lightning: The 1927 Yankees." His "REMEMBERING YANKEE STADIUM" was published to acclaim in 2008.
Together with his wife Myrna Katz Frommer, he has written the acclaimed oral histories "It Happened in the Catskills," "It Happened in Brooklyn," Growing Up Jewish in America," "It Happened on Broadway" and "It Happened in Manhattan."
Highlights from Dr. Frommer`s life:
Along with his wife Myrna Katz Frommer, he is a professor in the MALS program at Dartmouth College where he teaches oral and cultural history. Dr. Frommer has also taught "Sports Journalism" and "Sports and Culture at Dartmouth College, Adelphi and New York University.
His work has appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, New York Daily News, Newsday, USA Today and other publications.
Sampling of acclaim for Harvey Frommer:
"Dartmouth`s own Mr. Baseball"
· Dartmouth Alumni Magazine
"Harvey Frommer brings a vast amount of experience in the art of the oral history, one of the many tools at the disposal of the historian. From his Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball to Red Sox-Yankees The Great Rivalry, Frommer shows that he is a baseball writer and historian of repute."
· SABR executive director John Zajc
"Harvey Frommer is an accomplished writer about many facets of baseball."
· George F. Will
"First among equals is Harvey Frommer, a great expert on all things baseball and New York (and that city within a city Brooklyn)."
· John Thorn Baseball Historian
Harvey Frommer
"Dartmouth's own Mr. Baseball" Dartmouth Alumni Magazine http://harveyfrommersports.com/
April 7 - The Great Fenway Park Writers Series, Commonwealth Hotel, Boston
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