AUTHOR JOAN RYAN REVEALS TALE IN NEW BOOK, “INTANGIBLES: UNLOCKING THE SCIENCE AND SOUL OF TEAM CHEMISTRY” Almost seven years after the Red Sox won the 2013 World Series over the St. Louis Cardinals, author Joan Ryan has revealed in a never-before-told story how a group of Red Sox players persuaded manager John Farrell to change his announced starting lineup for Game 4 in order to include…

I have known Ned Colletti since he was a sportswriter covering hockey in Philadelphia, 40 years ago. He has been a media relations director (Cubs), assistant GM (Cubs and Giants), a GM (Dodgers), a college instructor (Pepperdine), TV baseball analyst (SportsNet LA), and now, in perhaps the most startling career…

I have had the exquisite privilege of sharing a few pressboxes with Roger Angell, the great essayist and fiction editor for the New Yorker who wrote about baseball in ways I scarcely imagined. I discovered his work while still in college (https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1975/11/17/agincourt-and-after) and no baseball season was ever complete until…

Two years ago, this book by long-time journalist, TV anchor and Google executive Skip Desjardin came to my attention,. “1918” has always resonated with Red Sox fans, that being the year the Sox last won a World Series before 86 years of falling short, often woefully and sometimes in heartbreaking…

I want to share with you snippets from some of the books I have. Some are newly published. Some I’ve had for a long time. Most will have something to do with sports, but not all. Maybe some will inspire you to read on. I hope so. They’ve enriched my…

Middle relievers are not cut out to be cult figures, but Rich Garces broke that mold. The nickname had a lot to do with it: El Guapo (“The Handsome One), given him in Pawtucket by teammate Mike Maddux after a viewing of “The Three Amigos,” the 1986 movie comedy starring…

Red Sox curator Sarah Coffin, with assistance from such notable interns as Nate Lucchino and Rachel Kirby, has digitized thousands of baseball cards of Sox players. Beginning today, April 2, the date of our scheduled home opener, I plan to share some of these cards with you, and tell you…

By Rachel C. Kirby Rachel C. Kirby is a Ph.D candidate in the American & New England Studies Program at Boston University. This summer she is interning for Red Sox team historian, Gordon Edes. Unless otherwise noted, she also took the photographs included in this story. Five years since making…

WALLY THE GREEN MONSTER AND THE STEAL OF THE CENTURY Bang! The bobbleheads on Wally’s shelf rattled. Water splashed out of the fishbowl in which Wally kept his goldfish, Yummy. And the baseball-shaped clock hanging on the wall inside the Green Monster spun upside down. Wally’s sister Tessie was so…