Feeding the Green Monster

by Rob Neyer

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 075955028X
• ISBN13: 9780759550285
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: iPublish.com
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Best book-buying decision I've ever made...

...and I run a bookstore for a living, so I make hundreds every day. Neyer's book was just what the doctor ordered, and that is a refreshingly well-written journey through a season at Fenway. The tidbits about Rob's personal life, and his status as a vegetarian (as I am, and not many folks understand what it's like to search for acceptable food when visiting the ballpark), enhanced what was already a brilliant story. What baseball fan hasn't dreamed of giving everything up for a summer and immersing himself or herself in the game? Rob does so and gives his readers a chance to live the experience through him and his writing. I love this book. To me, it ranks up with the Boys of Summer, Ball Four and all of Thomas Boswell's collections as the best of what baseball writing can be. In fact, Boswell is an apt comparison, because both he and Neyer understand the game and understand what makes it special -- that it curls around one's life and acts as a set of benchmarks, just as life benchmarks the game in return.

Long live Fenway Park

There have almost certainly been more books written about Fenway Park than any other sports facility in North America, most of them missing the point. Many Fenway books are pictorials, filled with glossy photos of grass and walls and empty seats. Fenway Park is not a building that you take pictures of, it is a place in which you have experiences. A picture is not always worth 1000 words, or 200 minutes.The person in the next seat might be a friend or a stranger, you might be sitting in the fourth row on a star-filled 75 degree night or in a cramped blue seat in a cold steady rain. Rob opens up his scorebook, and allows the park and the people and the game to control what happens next. What happens next is much more likely to be a surprise than it is in a modern mallpark.I appreciate Rob's book because I recognize what he writes about. Fenway Park is a wonderful place to spend three hours, and Rob reminds me that some of the best times of my life have been spent there in a way that a picture of the famous left field wall does not. I have not been there in five years, and I can't wait to get back.

A Great Baseball Book

This is an excellent book. Along with being entertaining, funny, and informative, it was well written. Not only does Neyer document every aspect of the 2000 Boston Red Sox, he shares a bit about baseball history, sabermetrics, and Fenway Park itself. You don't even have to be a fan of the Red Sox to enjoy this book. If you're a baseball fan, be sure to pick it up.

One man's passion for Fenway

To me Rob Neyer is the perfect combination of experienced baseball columnist, SABRmetric genius, gee-whiz fan, and a regular guy I'd want to watch a ballgame with. FtGM fully, and I mean fully, explores his fascination with Fenway Pahhk, the Red Sox, and their fans.Not only did he attend every one of the Red Sox (alas only) 81 home games in 2000 (the basis for the book), but he managed to 'squeeze' in another 20 or so MLB games of the Mariners, Royals and yes, the Red Sox, when they were away from Fenway. Suffice it to say that Rob enjoys going to MLB baseball games of the "Junior circuit" sort.Since I've been reading Rob's column on espn.com for years, I knew I'd like the writing and the way he balances dispassionate modern baseball analysis (If you think RBIs are important, think some more) with a fan's innocent love of his Royals, Mariners and now, 'his' RedSox. Along the way, he mixes in enough personal information about why he decided on this project and his observations and experiences about living in Boston, misplacing his computer and scorebook, dating women, that it's clear that Rob Neyer is a regular guy with a slightly wacky lifestyle who has the best job in the world.I really enjoyed how, in this book, he shares his life, and ultimately makes his job helping us love baseball more. (My only criticism -- too bad he never made it down to Cape Cod and saw the purest baseball there is!)By the way, "Baseball Dynasties" is just as interesting and a must-have for any student of the game.

Great book!

It chronicles an entire season with the red sox. Rob loves baseball and takes it from every angle...Although he is subjective by the end of the book (how could you not be after 81 games?) he gives real good description on the good and bad points of boston and red sox baseball.when the sox are out of the playoffs yet again next year, i may read it again...