Bibliograph

Boston's Red Line, bridging the Charles from Alewife to Braintree, Frank Cheney

Type

Label

Boston's Red Line, bridging the Charles from Alewife to Braintree, Frank Cheney

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Boston's Red Line

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Frank Cheney

Series statement

Images of America

Sub title

bridging the Charles from Alewife to Braintree

Summary

In the fall of 1897, over 250 baseball fans from Roxbury, Massachusetts, traveled to Baltimore with saloon keeper Nuf-Ced McGreevy and Pres. John F. Kennedy's future grandfather Honey-Fitz Fitzgerald to cheer their Beaneaters to the pennant. They became known famously as the Royal Rooters. Singing their fight song, "Tessie," they cheered on five world champion teams in the early 1900s. When Babe Ruth was sold to the Yankees after 1919, "Tessie" all but disappeared from Fenway. A new generation of Fenway Faithful suffered through decades of heartbreak until "Tessie" returned in 2004 to deliver another world title. In the course of a century, the original group of rooters has grown into a legion of fans known as Red Sox Nation. Boston's Royal Rooters chronicles the rich tradition of Boston's pioneering fans like Nuf-Ced, Honey-Fitz, and Lib Dooley, "the Queen of Fenway Park," and examines through rare images their influence on modern-day fans

Target audience

adult

Classification