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Why Not Us?: The 86-year Journey of the Boston Red Sox Fans From Unparalleled Suffering to the Promised Land of the 2004 World Series

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Generation after generation watched and hoped and prayed for victory. And generation after generation turned away frustrated and disappointed- 1946 (when the Sox lost the World Series in 7 games), ’48 (lost a one game play-off to Cleveland), ’49 (heartbreak to the Yankees), ’67 (again, lost the Series in 7), ’75 (and again, lost the Series in 7), Bucky in ’78, Buckner in ’86, Boone in 2003. Yet each spring the fans flocked back, hopeful again. The losing, the angst, the self-flagellation became so routine that it even developed marketing names. The suffering used to be referred to as “The Curse of the Bambino”. The victims were referred to as “Red Sox Nation” – the ultimate underdogs. Would it ever end?

And then it did.

Why Not Us? is about what the Red Sox’s amazing victory within the 2004 World Series meant to the fans. It is about the way it felt to be a Red Sox fan – not only at 20 minutes to nighttime on October 27, 2004, but decades before. Leigh Montville, best-selling writer of Ted Williams and At the Altar of Speed , has interviewed dozens of fans: friends, friends of friends, old sportswriters, ball-players, public figures, and plain folk. Here are their stories-bittersweet stories of passion and pain, eternal hope and crushing despair, the seemingly endless agony and the ordinary ecstasy of being a Red Sox fan.

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