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Index
Cover
Colophon
Also by Seth Mnookin
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction
Part I: A Century of Boston Baseball
1 From the Beaneaters to the Babe
2 Tom Yawkey’s Team, Ted Williams’s Town
3 The Impossible Dream and the Sixth Game
4 The Gerbil, the Spaceman, the Rocket, and the Curse
5 The Yawkey Trust
Part II: For Sale
6 Selling Boston’s Salvation
7 The Producer
8 The Baseball Visionary
9 From Soybeans to Stadiums
10 Putting Together the Team
11 A Surreal Process
12 December 20, 2001
13 Boston’s Second Favorite Sport: Revenge
Part III: A Fresh Start: 2002
14 “Sweep Out the Duke”
15 “Getting Ready to Have a Good Ride”
16 The Love Affair Begins
17 Enter Bill James
18 Red Sox General Manager Billy Beane
19 Introducing the Boy Wonder
Part IV: The Best Hitting Team Ever Assembled: 2003
20 Shopping at Wal-Mart for David Ortiz
21 Kim and the Committee
22 “You Want Me to Hit Like a Little Bitch?”
23 The Manny Sagas, Part 1
24 Gumped: A Cautionary Tale
25 Not Again
26 Nomar Wants to Know Where He Fits in
27 The Epic Offseason Begins
28 “This Is About Winning the World Series”
29 The A-Rod Chronicles
Part V: The World Champion Boston Red Sox: 2004
30 Welcome to the Jungle
31 Treading Water
32 Trading an Icon
33 “We’re Gonna Kick Fucking Ass Starting Today”
34 “Can You Believe It?”
Part VI: Feeding the Monster: 2005
35 The Morning After
36 Goodbye to No. 45
37 Theo Epstein Looks to the Future
38 The Defending Champs
39 The Manny Sagas, Part 2
40 The Rift Widens
41 The End of an Era
42 Apocalypse Now, Redux
43 Putting It All Back Together Again
44 Reversing the Curse
Epilogue
A Note on Sources and Methodology
Acknowledgments
Index
Photographs
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