From the Babe to the Beards

With the “Curse” a distant memory, the Boston Red Sox are the first team this century to win three World Series titles. Before 2004, an obnoxious Yankees fan might have smirked: The Red Sox in the World Series? The world’s shortest book!”

In actual fact, the Red Sox have played in twelve World Series and won eight. Even during their stories 86-year drought, the Sox took four Series to Game Seven before losing.

Lavishly illustrated, From the Babe to the Beards is the result of another collaboration by Bill Nowlin and Jim Prime—each with more than a dozen Sox books to their credit. The book includes full game accounts of every one of the 74 Series games played (to date) and profiles a significant player from each game. Supplemented with dozens of photos and line scores from every game, the book will provide a solid and eminently readable companion as the team prepares for additional Series in the years to come.

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Bill Nowlin was born in Boston. He is the author of nearly 40 Red Sox-related books. Since 2004, Nowlin has served as vice president of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR).
Jim Prime has authored or coauthored more than a dozen books on baseball including Ted Williams Hit List (with Ted Williams) and The Little Red (Sox) Book with Bill “Spaceman” Lee.

"Bill Nowlin and Jim Prime have put together a fantastic compilation of Red Sox World Series history in this book. The stories, player profiles, and stats together with many great photos will keep you riveted. The 2004 team brought a World Series Championship back to Boston after 86 years. What a great year that was. I had the chance to play in the '67 and '75 World Series where we came up short by one game. This book does not come up short of being one of the best ever written on Red Sox history. I'm sure baseball fans everywhere will enjoy it." —Rico Petrocelli

"When you're a kid on the field playing ‘It's the seventh game of the World Series...’ it's all fun, but winning the World Series is a mental grind. Basically your whole season comes down to certain plays and everything you do means so much. It's full of added pressure because you want to do it for your teammates, for the guys who haven't won one, and for the fans. You want to win so bad for them. It's stressful and it's definitely a grind. This book describes in game-by-game detail what it takes to become a World Series champion." —Dustin Pedroia