Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top

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Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top
by Seth Mnookin
from Simon & Schuster

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Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

• OK book tainted by author's rabid Red Sox fanhood
  What I hoped for was a sort of "Moneyball, the sequel" about the 2002 sale of the Red Sox and the building of the 2004 (and now 2007) World Series champions. What I got was an OK look at those topics, but tainted by an author who is a rabid and admitted Red Sox fan for whom this book was "the chance of a lifetime."
  Mnookin does mention the hiring of baseball stat king Bill James and briefly talks about the Moneyball-theories of Billy Beane and his short-lived hiring as GM of the Sox, but he never... more info

• Whatever happened to the Idiots?
  Ever wonder what happened to that self-proclaimed gang of "idiots" that aimed to do what we all knew could not be done, but we believed in them anyway? Who were those guys? What happened to them? Why did they leave? What brought Johnny Damon to the Yankees? Why did Pedro sign with the Mets? What ever happened to Kevin "Cowboy up" Millar? And who was that bulbous little man with the huge head and huge smile seen on virtually every post-2004 Red Sox publicity stunt?
  These are the questions you have been... more info

• Hear From the Red Sox Managers
  Dispel some of the rumors surrounding the Boston Red Sox with this behind-the-scenes look at the team's management.

• These Aren't Your Grandfather's Sox
  Taking the long view, as Seth Mnookin does at the beginning of this piece of reportage, the Boston Red Sox are a failed franchise, a broken watch.
  Much like the famous New Yorker cover that maps Manhattan at the center of the universe with other, lesser places marked as specks on the horizon, Mnookin's story centers on the team that John Henry, Tom Werner and Larry Lucchino assembled to change that legacy. Off in the irrelevant distance are a dueling Babe Ruth and Harry Frazee, an oafish Joe Cronin, a... more info

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