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Now I Can Die in Peace: How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from...
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Now I Can Die in Peace: How ESPN's Sports Guy Found Salvation, with a Little Help from...
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by Bill Simmons
Sales Rank : 41144
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Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: ESPN September 5, 2006
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1933060131
ISBN-13: 978-1933060132
Product Dimensions:
8.9 x 6 x 0.9 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
From Booklist
*Starred Review* Thirtysomething Simmons, author of the witty "Sports Guy" column on espn.com, tells of his life as a Red Sox fan in this hilarious, irreverent account. Simmons recalls reading the Boston Globe sports pages before he was in grade school, taking in as much Red Sox lore as he could garner. When he came across a copy of Al Hirschberg's What's the Matter with the Red Sox? in first grade, he didn't want to believe that his beloved team was cursed. But as owners and players made one bonehead move after another, he could only sit back and wallow in the collective suffering. The reversal of the curse began, according to Simmons, with the acquisition of Pedro Martinez, the first sign that the front office was after young players approaching their prime rather than looking back at it. From that fateful day in 1997, Simmons, blending his reprinted columns with new material, tracks the essential moves that brought the Sox to the 2004 World Series and made possible their sweep of the Cardinals in four games. (The last 100 pages or so are a diary of the season's final weeks, the play-offs, and the series). The footnotes, cleverly arranged like sidebars, make for fascinating reading in and of themselves. Whether familiar with "Sports Guy" or not, readers will enjoy this refreshing, funny take on Boston's reversal of fortune. Mary Frances Wilkens
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Product Review
"Bill Simmons is the funniest sportswriter of his generation." -- Chuck Klosterman, author of Killing Yourself to Live
"Destination reading for anyone who worships at the twin altars of pop culture and sports." -- Entertainment Weekly
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