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Chapters: Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Baseball Coaches, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets Baseball Players, Jason Varitek, Nomar Garciaparra, Mark Teixeira, David Newhan, Kevin Brown, Micah Owings, Jim Morris, Erskine Mayer, Doug Creek, Matt Wieters, Marty Marion, Bruce Chen, Matt Murton, Jay Payton, Marlon Byrd, Ed Lafitte, Cam Bonifay, Del Pratt, Frank Bolick, Eric Patterson, Andy Mitchell, Jim Hearn, Jason Perry, Darren Bragg, Jeff Kindel, Riccardo Ingram, Kris Wilson, Red Barron, Jim Poole, Kevin Cameron, Dave Elder, Bobby Dews, Weldon Henley, Horace Allen, Danny Hall, John Stewart, Tommy Mcmillan, Matt White, Mike Bell, Scott Jordan, Wes Hodges, Scrappy Moore. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 151. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jason Andrew Varitek (pronounced ; born April 11, 1972, in Rochester, Michigan) is a American baseball catcher and team captain for the Boston Red Sox. After being traded as a minor league prospect by the Seattle Mariners, Varitek has played his entire major league career for the Red Sox. A three-time all-star and Gold Glove Award winner at catcher,and a Silver Slugger Award winner. Varitek was an integral part of the 2004 World Series and 2007 World Series Championship teams. In December 2004 he was named the captain of the Red Sox, only their third captain since 1923. He is a switch-hitter. His nicknames include "The Captain" and "'Tek" (his chest protector has the monogram "TEK" on its collar). Jason Varitek is large and durable at 6'2" and 230 pounds. Varitek is one of only two players in the history of the sport to have played in the World Championship game of the Little League World Series, in the National Championship game of the College World Series, and in the Major League World Series (Ed Vosberg is the other). Varitek stands alone as the only bas...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=609112 ... Read more

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Good read for Sox fans, though offering no new info.
So I guess every member of the Boston media is going to write a book on the current local professional sports scene.Can we expect all the Bruins writers to pen something for next season if the team wins a Stanley Cup?How many more Red Sox books are out there?

Having said that, I did enjoy this one, and breezed through it in two afternoons.Though offering no major insights or material that has not been presented elsewhere, I enjoyed Mazz's coverage of the offseasons especially.It is in the period following the World Series and prior to spring training that so many championships are won or lost.These discussions are the strength of the book and well worth reading.

So "Dynasty" is heartily recommended for Sox fans.

Better examination of Red Sox recent success
I have had the chance to read this book as well as Michael Holley's love note to Terry Francona and John Henry.This is by far the better of the two.For one thing Tony Massor does a much better job at proving that the red sox success didn't just begin when John Henry and company took over. He rightly gives proper credit to Dan Duqette who got the Sox players like Tek, Pedro and Youk who are all key players in the Sox success.

Massoratti also makes his disdain for Theo Epstein quite obvious. This is nothing new but you can see he is clearly a backer of Sox senior management and has always been that way.The writing could be better, this seems a bit formulaic and dull. What is really needed is for someone to update all those great Red Sox history books written over the years.

It's boring. Please insert writing skills...
I made the mistake of purchasing this book. As a Boston denizen, I should have realized the quality of sports writing in this town exited with Will McDonough.There just isn't any talent left here, as evidenced by this seemingly random assemblance of words.

If you're looking for decent writing, you'll have to wait until a sports writer in this town manages to realize that the story isn't about them...and that's not happening anytime soon.

How does a shill like this even find a publisher willing to sell?It's mind boggling...yet another MTV moment here folks.

A Sellout Hypocrite Cannot Tell Me Anything New
The author hates any Patriots' fan that would also root for the Red Sox, so why bother with any of his garbage? The same man who insists that you cannot critique Francona, manager of the Red Sox, jumps all over Patriots' fans for not criticizing Belichick, the coach of the Patriots. I wonder if this has anything to do with media accessibility, hmmm...

Not quite a dynasty, not quite an inside view, but still enjoyable
Massarotti provides a good summary of Sox history from the Duquette years through the 2008 World Series.He gives due credit to the contributions of Dan Duquette to the first Sox championship in 2004, which is long overdue.I can remember Dan in the bar of the Adams-Mark Hotel in St Louis during the post-game World Series celebration in 2004 looking lost and out of place.Massarotti recounts the ways in which the new Sox administration has sought to deflect any credit from prior management.That was unfair, demonstrates the author, since Duquette's trades for Martinez, Varitek, and Lowe as well as his draft of Garciaparra and plucking of Wakefield from the scrap heap all contributed to the Sox rise.Many of the trades Epstein developed to help the 2004 team were made from prospects drafted by Duquette as well.

The story of 2004 is fun to read as always but I expected more from the author who is a beat writer covering the Sox for the Boston Herald and, according to Varitek in the foreward, a guy who stays in the clubhouse after each game as long as any of his peers. The sub-title of the book calls it an "inside story."However, aside from a few quotes not heard before, virtually everything in the book could have been gleaned from past news coverage.The value of the book is the synthesis of all of this information to explain the Sox rise rather than the revelation of new information.

My other issue with the book is the short shrift given to the 2008 World Series covered in a few pages.In fact, Massarotti seems to be rushing to finish in the final chapters.In one case, he uses the metaphor running on all cylinders twice in consecutive paragraphs.Tighter editing could have helped.

Finally, the title makes me nervous. The Sox are a few championships short of any consideratuion of the "D" word.

Overall,the book is competently written and fun to read for Sox fans.It also has some value as a business book in detailing how culture changes and interpersonal skills in strategy and execution make a difference in product. ... Read more

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Chapters: Jason Varitek, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Giambi, Ron Villone, Orlando Hernández, Phil Nevin, Michael Tucker, Rick Helling, Darren Dreifort, Huang Chung-Yi, Charles Johnson (Baseball, Born 1971), Kuo Lee Chien-Fu, Jeffrey Hammonds, Rolando Arrojo, Liao Ming-Hsiung, Tomohito Ito, Chiang Tai-Chuan, Omar Linares, Lo Kuo-Chong, Orestes Kindelán, Kento Sugiyama, Osvaldo Fernández, Masanori Sugiura, Hiroki Kokubo, Lo Chen-Jung, Koichi Oshima, Kazutaka Nishiyama, Masahito Kohiyama, Shinichi Sato, Omar Ajete, Luis Ulacia, Antonio Pacheco Massó, Wu Shih-Hsih, Takashi Miwa, Germán Mesa, Alberto Hernández, Akihiro Togo, José Estrada González, Lourdes Gourriel, Chang Wen-Chung, Lázaro Vargas, Pai Kun-Hong, Chang Cheng-Hsien, Lin Kun-Han, Chen Wei-Chen, Jong Yeu-Jeng, Tsai Ming-Hung, Chen Chi-Hsin, Lin Chao-Huang, Wang Kuang-Shih, Chang Yaw-Teing, Ku Kuo-Chian, Huang Wen-Po, Jorge Luis Valdés, Ermidelio Urrutia, José Raúl Delgado, Víctor Mesa, Giorge Díaz, Shigeki Wakabayashi, Yasunori Takami, Shinichiro Kawabata, Yasuhiro Sato, Hirotami Kojima, Katsumi Watanabe, Hiroshi Nakamoto, Hiroyuki Sakaguchi, Masafumi Nishi, Koji Tokunaga. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 198. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jason Andrew Varitek (pronounced ; born April 11, 1972, in Rochester, Michigan) is a American baseball catcher and team captain for the Boston Red Sox. After being traded as a minor league prospect by the Seattle Mariners, Varitek has played his entire major league career for the Red Sox. A three-time all-star and Gold Glove Award winner at catcher,and a Silver Slugger Award winner. Varitek was an integral part of the 2004 World Series and 2007 World Series Championship teams. In December 2004 he was named the captain of the Red Sox, only their third captain since 1923. He is a switch-hitte...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=609112 ... Read more

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Chapters: Jim Thorpe, Jason Varitek, Nomar Garciaparra, Jason Giambi, Roy Oswalt, Ben Sheets, Ron Villone, Lou Marson, Blaine Neal, Troy Glaus, Matt Laporta, Charles Brickley, Brad Wilkerson, Doug Mientkiewicz, Mark Kotsay, Jeff Weaver, Brian Duensing, J. Ira Courtney, Mike Koplove, Stephen Strasburg, Travis Lee, Braden Looper, Mike Kinkade, Jacque Jones, Pat Borders, Rick Krivda, Augie Ojeda, Jim Parque, Phil Nevin, Kris Benson, Ryan Franklin, Michael Tucker, Jon Rauch, Rick Helling, Billy Koch, Brandon Knight, Kurt Ainsworth, Nate Schierholtz, Adam Everett, John Paul Jones, Mike Hessman, John Gall, Abel Kiviat, Darren Dreifort, Dexter Fowler, Todd Williams, George Bonhag, Brett Anderson, Charles Johnson (Baseball, Born 1971), Trevor Cahill, Seth Greisinger, Casey Weathers, Jeffrey Hammonds, Jayson Nix, Jeff Stevens, Sean Burroughs, Ernie Young, Kevin Jepsen, Terry Tiffee, Jason Donald, Brian Barden, Jake Arrieta, Bobby Seay, Platt Adams, Marcus Jensen, Tim Young, Matthew Brown, Brent Abernathy, Mike Neill, Gookie Dawkins, Taylor Teagarden, Anthony Sanders, Chris George, Frank Irons, Jeremy Cummings, Edward Lindberg, Benjamin Adams, Richard Byrd, Frank Nelson, George Horine, Ira Nelson Davenport, Lawrence Whitney, Eugene Mercer, Harlan Holden, Walter Mcclure, Wesley Oler, Howard Drew, Brian Loyd, John Cotton, Norman Patterson, Vaughn Blanchard, Kip Harkrider, Carroll Haff, Jason Williams, Shane Heams. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 378. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jacobus Franciscus "Jim" Thorpe (Sac and Fox (Sauk): Wa-Tho-Huk) (May 28, 1888 March 28, 1953) was a Native American athlete. Considered one of the most versatile athletes in modern sports, he won Olympic gold medals in the 1912 pentathlon and decathlon, played American football at the collegiate and professional l...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=53869 ... Read more

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Title: Jason Varitek--Boston Red Sox.(Base Profile)
Author: Rick Sorci
Publication: Baseball Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: November 1, 2005
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 64Issue: 9Page: 44(1)

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