Faithful

Faithful

Faithful
By Stewart O’Nan and Stephen King
Scribner Press

This is not a new Stephen King novel, but a non-fiction work that chronicles the unwavering baseball passion of noted authors King and Stewart O’Nan.

Early last year, the two men decided to document the upcoming Boston Red Sox season by sitting next to each other at Fenway Park, e-mailing each other their post-game analyses and writing about the games. They never could have predicted, or perhaps even dared dream, that they would write about the team during the first season in 86 years that the Red Sox would win the World Series.

They colorfully describe their rollercoaster ride from spring training to the final out of the Red Sox’s World Series championship game against the St. Louis Cardinals. The real centerpiece of the book is the heated rivalry between the Red Sox and the New York Yankees. Like all Red Sox fans, the authors had suffered through countless near misses and lingering heartbreaks since the "Curse of the Bambino," when Boston sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in 1920. Curse or not, this is a wonderful way to relive the season many are still talking about.

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