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    For Boston: From Worst to First, the Improbable Dream Season of the 2013 Red Sox
    For Boston: From Worst to First, the Improbable Dream Season of the 2013 Red Sox
    For Boston: From Worst to First, the Improbable Dream Season of the 2013 Red Sox
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    For Boston: From Worst to First, the Improbable Dream Season of the 2013 Red Sox

    By The Boston Globe and Larry Lucchino

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    When John Farrell was introduced as the new Red Sox manager in the fall of 2012, he took over a last-place team lacking talent and cohesion. A franchise that once made Boston proud had become an embarrassment. Just one year later, the Red Sox have won the World Series, their third title in a decade.

    There were many keys to the team’s success: General manager Ben Cherington remade the roster with a series of mid-range free-agent signings. The returning players recommitted themselves, bonds were formed, and beards were grown. The Red Sox never had more than a three-game losing streak and led the majors in runs scored. They regained the respect of Red Sox Nation and lifted a city still reeling from the senseless violence that marred its beloved marathon just as the baseball season was getting underway.

    With emotions running high and “B Strong” signs cheering them on at Fenway, the Red Sox wrote their own worst-to-first story that brought them to a World Series meeting with who else but the St. Louis Cardinals, the longtime foe who had denied Williams, Pesky, and Doerr in 1946, as well as the Impossible Dream team of 1967, while providing the foil for the lovable “idiots” of 2004. The 2013 season was destined to be just as drama-filled and unforgettable. As in 2004, it would end in victory for the Red Sox. No more curses; in just one season, this was fortune reversed.

    It’s a journey that transcends sports—a tale of resolve, resilience, and, finally, redemption. And it’s all chronicled in the new, must-have keepsake book by Triumph Books and the Boston Globe, For Boston: From Worst to First, the Improbable Dream Season of the 2013 Red Sox. Relive each dazzling moment of the team’s latest eventful season and incredible playoff run with this special commemorative book—128 pages of award-winning reporting, vivid storytelling, dramatic photography, complete game summaries, and statistics. Plus, look back at the historic importance of this World Series match-up with a special Sox–Cardinals retrospective section that makes this the perfect souvenir or gift for any fan.

    This has been a season to remember for Red Sox fans, a journey of deep lows and great highs that both underline and transcend the sport of baseball. For Boston offers the perfect way to replay those moments and revel in the triumph of a team and a city that refused to be counted out.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTriumph Books
    Release dateNov 1, 2013
    ISBN9781623687403
    For Boston: From Worst to First, the Improbable Dream Season of the 2013 Red Sox

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      For Boston - The Boston Globe

      We didn’t just win it.

      We won it

      at home.

      Contents

      Introduction by Larry Lucchino

      World Series

      The Sox got superb starting pitching from Jon Lester and John Lackey, and enough timely hits from an offense carried by MVP David Ortiz to seal their first Series title at home in 95 years.

      American League Championship Series

      David Ortiz’s Game 2 grand slam made a series of it, Mike Napoli struck the key blows in Detroit, and led by ALCS MVP Koji Uehara (one win, three saves), the bullpen brought it home.

      American League Division Series

      A pesky division foe for years, Tampa Bay proved a customary tough out. But the Red Sox scratched out a 3-1 road clincher in Game 4 to avoid a winner-take-all finale vs. Rays’ ace David Price.

      2013 Season

      New manager John Farrell helped the 2013 Sox establish a fresh identity, and bolstered by a 12-4 start, the team improved on its 2012 record by 28 victories, many via the walkoff route.

      2013 Red Sox Roster

      Sox vs Cards Retrospective

      From Pesky supposedly holding the ball in 1946, to Gibson dominating Red Sox batters in 1967, to Boston’s seemingly scripted sweep in 2004, these proud franchises have a history.

      Fans on Yawkey Way celebrate Boston’s first world title since 2007.

      Introduction by Larry Lucchino

      Through many seasons, successful or not, there has been a durable bond between the people of Boston and New England and their baseball team. This season, the simple act of coming together on a spring night in Fenway Park took on a different meaning.

      After the April 15 Marathon bombings shattered lives and shook our city deeply, Bostonians and New Englanders responded with love, quiet compassion, and tremendous resolve. Starting on April 20, with the first home stand after the bombing, the Red Sox determined to recognize the tragedy, pay tribute to victims and first responders all season long, while still providing common ground and the diversion of a summer game.

      Playing games during a time of crisis may seem to some in questionable taste. But to move forward seemed a solemn obligation. New Englanders proved resilient, showing that while adversity may temporarily set us back, we would not allow any hardship, any calamity, any misfortune to keep us down for long. The team was no different: This is our (bleeping) city.

      All through the summer, our ballpark was like a neighbor’s porch where all were welcome to come and sit and share in the fortunes of a team. They came for distraction and comfort. They came for the solace of simply gathering together. More and more, the team took on the character of the city, borrowing from its ample store of resilience and determination.

      The World Series Trophy made the rounds, from team owners Larry Lucchino, Tom Werner, and John Henry (right) to the players who brought it home to Fenway Park.

      The Red Sox played with grit and resolve. Time and again, this team came from behind to win in all sorts of unexpected and miraculous ways. Our club began to rise from the great disappointment of September 2011 and the last-place finish of 2012. Tapping into the innate optimism and inner strength of people familiar with hard times, the city and New England moved forward through the smoke of April into the clear October light.

      At our introductory press conference in December 2001, John Henry, Tom Werner, and our ownership group made five commitments to New England and all of Red Sox Nation. The first of these obligations was to field a team worthy of the fans’ support. This took on an entirely new meaning for us in 2013.

      To be certain, baseball matters. Not always so much the winning and losing. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt recognized this when, after Pearl Harbor, he urged then-commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis to continue playing the games while the country was at war. Boston is a city of many races, ethnicities, traditions, and faiths; no single one embraces us all. Then there is baseball; the Red Sox bring this city and region together as one large congregation of fans. In times of trial and difficulty, baseball provides us a reason to gather and draw strength from our community. And so it was this season, this World Championship season, 2013.

      Larry Lucchino is president and CEO of the Boston Red Sox.

      World Series

      In a matchup of 97-game winners, the Red Sox consistently produced the big pitch and the big hit.

      SERIES VS ST. LOUIS

      The Red Sox storm the field after winning their eighth world title.

      by Dan Shaughnessy • Globe Staff

      It was a Back Bay Bacchanal, a party unlike anything since 1918. ›› Six months after Shelter in Place, the city of Boston invites the world to celebrate a victory of team over self. Boston Strong, at least a variation of the theme, hit a crescendo on Oct. 30 on the Fenway lawn, the town common of 2013. ›› The 2013 Red Sox, the motley crew that left Fort Myers begging, "Please don’t hate us,’’ completed the ultimate redemption song, thrashing the St. Louis Cardinals, 6-1, in the sixth and final game of

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