Biographical note:
SAUL WISNIA is a former sports and news correspondent for
The Washington Post and feature writer for
The Boston Herald. He has authored, co-authored or contributed to numerous books on Boston baseball history, including
Fenway Park: The Centennial and
For the Love of the Boston Red Sox. His essays and articles have appeared in
Sports Illustrated, Red Sox Magazine, and
The Boston Globe. Wisnia lives 6.78 miles from MLB's oldest ballpark in his native Newton, MA.
Main description:
The players and coaches of the 2004 Boston Red Sox are now and forever, legends. After all, it had been 86 years since Boston last won a World Series, a fact anybody even remotely associated with the team as a player, executive, or fan was reminded of on a daily basis. For the players on the 2004 Red Sox roster, winning in '04 was one of the greatest experiences in their lives. For fans, the '04 team will forever be remembered as the one that broke the curse.Hundreds of articles and several books were written in the immediate aftermath of the thrilling ’04 season, but 10 years have passed and MIRACLE AT FENWAY has a fresh perspective, including the type of analysis and insight that comes with a decade of reflection. As a Red Sox fan since birth, and from having written about and worked alongside the team for his entire professional life, Saul Wisnia has cultivated relationships with people at every level of the Sox organization. From the players to the fans to the upper echelons of team management, he has their accounts of 2004 as they saw it and as they remember it today, now that the memories have had time to take root and blossom.In the winning tradition of baseball oral histories, Wisnia tells the story of 2004 as experienced by the people who lived it, in an engaging style filled with insight and excitement.