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"Jerry Gutlon's It Was Never About the Babe: The Red Sox, Racism, mismanagement, and the Curse of the Bambino is an astute, anecdote-rich journey through the shadow of darkness. . . . Gutlon really hits his stride, however, when it comes to the 44-year regime of Tom Yawkey, an era of 'cronyism, poor management, racism, and downright stupidity' during which key decisions were arrived at by the owner in conference with his 'steam-bath buddies.' . . . . The book travels through the team's recent glories to the present and includes a nice stash of photos." ----Boston Globe
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About the Author
Jerry M. Gutlon is an award-winning print and broadcast journalist who has been published in The New York Times and The Washington Post, among other publications. This is his first book.
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Product details
Hardcover: 336 pages
Publisher: Skyhorse; First Edition edition (March 9, 2009)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1602393494
ISBN-13: 978-1602393493
Product Dimensions:
6 x 1.1 x 9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
3.9 out of 5 stars
15 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#1,506,445 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
If your a Red Sox fan, you should purchase this book. It will give you an idea why it took so long for the Red Sox to win a World Series.
As a Red Sox fan, I was shocked to see how they took so long to evolve. It only makes them more loveable now!
fine expose of the ownership of the red soxs and the problems caused by its racism
It took awhile before I couldn't put this book down, but had to stay up late to finish it.As a Red Sox fan, it is great to be able to look behind the scenes. Although the author could have found better editors, I gave this a 5 star rating because the book made me a more knowledgeable fan!
ok book....although some info is wrong
Every die hard Red Sox fan will never forget the seventh game of the 2003 American League Championship Series... when manager Grady Little refused to remove pitcher Pedro Martinez from the game... thereby blowing a 5-2 lead... which would have probably... ended up with a win... that would have propelled the Red Sox into the World Series... instead... the ensuing loss... not only cost the Red Sox a trip to the Series... but it added on another year... to the previous EIGHTY-FIVE-YEARS... without a World Championship... and as most Sox fans would vociferously state... it also... rightfully cost Little his job.When you have an author that writes the following: "LITTLE STUBBORNLY REMAINED IN THE SOX DUGOUT UNTIL THE GAME WAS TIED AT 5-5. BY THEN, THOSE OF US OLD ENOUGH TO REMEMBER BUCKY ("BLEEPING") DENT'S DYING-QUAIL HOME RUN OFF MIKE TORREZ IN THE INFAMOUS 1978 ONE-GAME PLAYOFF AGAINST THE YANKS WERE FRANTICALLY SEARCHING FOR THE NEAREST EXHAUST PIPE TO SUCK ON. I WAS HAVING FLASH-BACKS TO 78."... You know you have a true... die in the wool... Red Sox fan... who just happens... to also be a writer! That is the case with author Jerry Gutlon... and since the reader becomes aware of this early on in this story... it makes the historical... pain and anguish... along with some ups and downs... that the author shares with the reader... on a literary journey... through the history of the Red Sox... a little easier to take... because you are made to feel... like you're sitting in a local bar... commiserating with a fan just like you... who has had the same EIGHTY-SIX-YEAR "cursed-trip"... that was passed down from Father to son to son.In 1990 Boston Globe sportswriter Dan Shaughnessy "penned his 1990 fairy tale, "THE CURSE OF THE BAMBINO"... and since it was a catchy phrase... it was repeated with religious like fervor throughout baseball. After all... it made great headlines. Jerry Gutlon's sole goal in this book... is to disprove this... and show the reader... that rather than a curse... the greatest enemy of the Red Sox during the EIGHTY-SIX-YEAR-DROUGHT... was their own ownership and management. The fact that it was a racist organization is hard to dispute... since they were the absolute last team in baseball to have an African American player... and that wasn't until 1959. They had a manager... Pinky Higgins... who "swore that no African-American would play for the club while he was managing." And he certainly didn't use the term African American. In fact due to local pressure from a Boston City Councilor... on October 23, 1945... ONE-HUNDRED-NINETY-ONE-DAYS before Jackie Robinson signed with the Brooklyn Dodgers... the Red Sox gave a private tryout to three black players. One was future Hall Of Famer Jackie Robinson... and another was Sam Jethroe... who would win the National League Rookie Of The Year award in 1950. The Red Sox showed absolutely no interest... and during the tryout... in a near empty stadium... a voice from up in the stands yelled... "Get those N***'s off the field!" In fact... manager Joe Cronin sat up in the stands and turned his back on the players most of the time. If that wasn't enough... in 1950 the Red Sox had "options" on any player on the Birmingham Black Barons... a Negro League team... and a scout told... now General Manager... Joe Cronin... about a "five-tool-player"... by the name of Willie Mays... Cronin supposedly remarked, "We have no use for the boy at this time."From 1933-1976 the Red Sox were owned by Tom Yawkey... whose drinking... along with his racism... created much bigger obstacles to winning a World Championship... than any curse ever did. He tended to hire mangers and general managers... that liked to drink with him. He also overpaid ballplayers... and tended to prolong his contractual mistakes. Playing for the Red Sox in the Yawkey days... was described from racial terms... as being on the "plantation"... and from an overpaid side... as being at a "country club". "Baseball historians have confirmed that the bigotry that beset the franchise emanated from the very top" "The funny thing about the Yawkey regime is that they didn't like anybody," asserted Clark Booth. "They didn't like blacks. They didn't like Catholics. They didn't like Jews. The Anti-Defamation League brought a suit against the Red Sox in 1959 for discriminating against Jews."The author set out on a goal of disproving the misguided catch-phrase... "The Curse Of The Bambino"... and in my opinion... he succeeded.
Another history of the Boston Red Sox? Haven't enough trees fallen already in the examination of that particular subject?Well, that depends on your viewpoint, naturally. Red Sox fans love reading about their team, warts and all, and a variety of books have been written through the years. Indeed, "It Was Never About the Babe" quotes many of them.That might be the biggest problem with author Jerry Gutlon's book on the team. There's just not much new.Gutlon's driving concept is that "The Curse of the Bambino" -- the idea that Boston's trade of Babe Ruth led to a series of misfortunes in the 86 years the team went between championships -- never existed. The author blames bad management, who in some cases were out and out racist, for the woes that befell the team over the years.No one really believed in a "curse," I think, although it was a convenient way to wrap up the team's woes into a single phrase. Therefore, Gutlon is on target there.The author obviously did a lot of research in putting together the Red Sox story over the years. The bibliography is crammed with books, newspapers, publications, Web sites, etc. I only noticed a couple of little typos in terms of factual errors, such as saying the Yankees won four straight World Series from 1950 to 1953 (they also won in 1949), or that Johnny Pesky was fired after 1963 (it was 1964).But most of the material in the book is obviously taken from other sources. There are bunches of references to Glenn Stout and Richard Johnson and their fabulous book, "Red Sox Century" (which received five stars here), during the course of "It Was Never About the Babe." Stout and Johnson obviously took plenty of time to talk to Gutlon. But it does beg the question, why not just go read "Red Sox Century"?Gutlon did talk to Luis Tiant, Curt Schilling, a few reporters on the scene in Boston, some fans, and a former Red Sox executive, at least as far as can be told by the acknowledgments. Otherwise, though, there's a lot of second-hand information. So there are just very few new insights available here. That's fine when you are writing about the 1903 Boston Red Sox, with no one alive to discuss it. It's different when focusing on the last 45 years of Red Sox history. Stringing together facts and quotes, as is done here, has term paper-like qualities.There's also a danger to that technique when stories get passed along. For example, Gutlon writes that analyst Bill James advocated a "closer-by-committee" system for the bullpen. Others have written that; James actually wrote that sometimes it would make more sense to use a team's best relief pitcher against the other team's best hitters in crucial late-inning situations, even in the seventh or eighth.Gutlon does note in a couple of places that requests for interviews with certain individuals, such as Terry Francona and Theo Epstein, were "ignored." That's a mighty strong word, even without my knowing the circumstances. The attitude does, however, fit in with a paragraph like this from the acknowledgments: "Two years of covering Pike County government straight from the shoulder and without favor earned me the everlasting gratitude of a large number of West Central Georgians, most whom had never dealt with a reporter who tirelessly endeavors to report the truth, no matter the cost."In addition, Gutlon makes some very curious editorial decisions. The 1978 playoff game between the Yankees and Red Sox certainly had tons of significance to Boston's history, but is dismissed in a paragraph. The 2004 ALCS comeback by Boston also is given virtually no coverage, which is out-and-out stunning.Those who do pick up "It Was Never About the Babe" will get a quick course in Red Sox history. They should keep in mind, though, that's it's been done elsewhere, and done better.
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