The 1967 Impossible Dream Red Sox: Pandemonium on the Field

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Dozens, then hundreds, then thousands of fans streamed onto the field mobbing Lonborg, who lost a shirt and shoelaces as he struggled through the delirious crowd to the clubhouse. Two or three dozen fans climbed the backstop screen toward the broadcast booth. Others dismantled the scoreboard in left field. It was, in the words of Sox announcer Ned Martin, "pandemonium on the field."

As Peter Gammons wrote on this great season, "The Red Sox were always New England's team, yes, but it took the Impossible Dream of 1967 to turn it into a romanticized mystique and keep the legion of fans coming by the millions.... It wasn't always the way it is now, and might never have been but for '67."

This book is a tribute to the Impossible Dream team, comprised of individual original biographies of all 39 players that year, plus each of the four coaches, manager Dick Williams, and GM Dick O'Connell. The bios are supplemented with appreciations of this remarkable season by an all-star lineup featuring Andy Andres, Mark Armour, Gerry Beirne, Joe Castiglione, Ken Coleman, Dan Desrochers, Gordon Edes, Peter Gammons, Tom Harkins, Dick Johnson, Jim Lonborg, Bill Nowlin, Harvey Soolman, Glenn Stout, Dan Valenti, Tom Werner, and Saul Wisnia.

Contains a selection of over 300 rare photographs and memorabilia from this special Red Sox season in a 16-page color insert.

A project of the Boston chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research, this volume gathers the collective efforts of more than 60 SABR members and friends of the non-profit research society.

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