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    Francona: The Red Sox Years

    Written by Terry Francona and Dan Shaughnessy

    Narrated by Jeff Gurner

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    From famed baseball manager Terry Francona, a lively, unvarnished narrative of his tenure with the storied Boston Red Sox

    From 2004 to 2011, Terry "Tito" Francona managed the Boston Red Sox, the most talked about, scrutinized team in all of sports. In Francona the legendary manager opens up for the first time about his eight years there, as they went from cursed franchise to one of the most successful and profitable in baseball history. He takes readers inside the rarefied world of a 21st-century clubhouse, from 2004 when they won their first championship in 86 years, through another win in 2007, to the controversial September collapse just four years later. He recounts the tightrope walk of managing personalities like Pedro Martinez and Manny Ramirez, working with Theo Epstein and his statistics-driven executives, balancing their data with the emotions of a 25-man roster, and meeting the expectations of three owners with often wildly differing opinions. Along the way listeners are treated with back-slapping, never-before-told stories about their favorite players, moments, losses, and wins.

    Those eight years were a wild, unforgettable ride, and now the fascinating full story can be told in an audiobook that examines like no other the art of managing in today's game.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateJan 22, 2013
    ISBN9781427233592

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    • 5/5
      I just loved this book but I am biased when it comes to Terry Francona. I liked the way it was obvious Dan was writing the book with a lot of input from Terry and Theo and lots of other people. Seldom do you read honest accounts in this type of book but I believe this one is honest and fair.
    • 4/5
      I absolutely loved this book. I am a baseball guy (played and coached for most of my life) and a Red Sox fan, so this book is about as good as it gets for me. It terms of my enjoyment, this is a runaway 5 star read. Trying to be more objective, this is probably a 3 star read for anyone that lives outside of New England.

      This book gives an inside look at the years that Terry Francona was the manager of the Red Sox. I loved relieving those magical seasons, and the stories from the clubhouse that I never knew were gems. I also loved Francona as a manager - his style and his ability to handle professional athletes was second to none. This is highly recommended to Red Sox fans. I can't believe I didn't read this years ago.
    • 3/5
      Good material, pedestrian writing. And, Francona didn't come across as likable as I had imagined.
    • 4/5
      As a Red Sox fan, I lived through much of the Tito and Sox history in the book, and attended some of those critical games. What I didn't know about was the owners' primary interest in the business, rather than the game of baseball. Owners need to "get it" that they're in charge of the careers of people playing a competitive game they devote their lives to play; they are not commodities on an exchange board (except in fantasy baseball).

      The book was a walk down memory lane for me, and a sweetly accurate rendering of the Great Tito Years.
    • 4/5
      After losing to the New York Yankees in the 2003 playoffs, the Boston Red Sox fired manager Grady Little and hired Terry Francona in his place. Their choice paid off quickly as the Red Sox won the World Series in 2004 and again in 2007. For a while all was well in Red Sox Nation but the good times didn't last as Francona lost control of the clubhouse and players and after a disastrous 2011 season Francona was fired. “Francona: The Red Sox Years” is the story of Francona's roller coaster years as Red Sox manager.Written by Dan Shaughnessy and Terry Francona (Shaughnessy wisely writes in the third person and doesn't pretend the book is solely written from Francona's point of view), “Francona: The Red Sox Years” is an interesting look back at his years as manager of the Red Sox. If you are a diehard Red Sox fan you probably won't learn anything you didn't already know when reading this book, but it is still fun to look back at the excitement of two World Series wins and anguishing to read and relive the horrors of Tito's last season in Boston. While the Boston media has made much of the way Francona bashes Red Sox management in the book I found it not nearly as bad as portrayed in the media. Yes, Francona was upset at the way he was treated at the end and it is clear he is not a John Henry fan, but his biggest beef still seems to be about whoever told the media he had a “problem” with prescription drugs. Francona doesn't reveal anything in this book that isn't public knowledge - for example he acknowledges the breakup of his marriage but doesn't go into the details of why/how it happened. It is clear who his favorite players were - even David Ortiz who had his battles with Francona gets a pass in this book - and who he didn't like (not that Manny Ramirez probably cares!). Shaughnessy does an excellent job of quoting Francona - I could hear Tito's voice in my head while reading the book. In the end, I think despite the fact that Francona clearly has his opinions about Red Sox ownership, the book is pretty evenhanded. Francona admits that he made his share of mistakes and does appear to happen disinterested at times towards the end of his time in Boston.“Francona: The Red Sox Years: may not have anything new to say but it is still an interesting look at the manager who brought a World Series win to Boston for the first time in 86 years.
    • 4/5
      Dan Shaughnessy is a self-aggrandizing horse's ass and has, in the pages of the Boston Globe, become a parody of himself, but he mostly stays out of the way of the story here, and his voice and tone are, whether on purpose or not, pretty much exactly right for the subject, and for Francona himself. There's maybe less dish than you're hoping for. The championship seasons are treated lovingly, and although there's analysis of the 2011 implosion, it's a little too close to the action to feel thorough and a little short on resolution. Everyone claims not to be responsible for the clubhouse leaks that year, and no one will admit know knowing or even suspecting who it was, and the investigation there all seems rather thin and half-hearted. There aren't really any surprises, but it's a good, quick read, and thoroughly enjoyable.
    • 4/5
      You do have to be a Red Sox fan to enjoy this - it requires a fair amount of knowledge of the team. But if you've followed them, this is a strong case study of how to manage and own and how not to manage and own a baseball team. Nobody was guiltless in the destruction of the Red Sox franchise, but there was a lot of shared blame and more than enough to go around.
    • 2/5
      I don't know what I actually expected out of this. I'm a Red Sox fan and was a big supporter of Francona, and was disgusted by the way he was unceremoniously ousted after his tenure in Boston. I guess I hoped that this book would add some depth and context to what happened. Instead, the book was, well, pretty boring. It doesn't help that Shaughnessy's simply not a very good writer (and he quite obviously wrote this, though it is interspersed with passages of dialogue from Francona). But for the most part, it's a lot of standard summary of the last few years of Red Sox baseball, the likes of which you've probably read in many other places (or lived through) if you've followed the team. The book does suggest that the seeds of what transpired between Francona, Epstein, and the ownership at the end of 2011 were planted a bit longer ago than some might have believed, but beyond that there's not much in this book to make it worth the time and effort it took to read it. Even when things start to get interesting, there's nothing all that too salacious though one gets the impression Shaughnessy wishes it were. Overall, very underwhelming.
    • 4/5
      Living in Boston and witnessing the collapse of 2011 first hand, this book provided great insider information as to the events leading up to and then immediately following the terrible September of that year. The book moves at a very good pace and I think we learn what most of us already knew about the collapse and the dysfunction in the clubhouse and the owners' suite. For those out there who are huge Red Sox fans, this book confirms many fears and offers little hope in the near future.
    • 4/5
      If you like baseball, this is a wonderful book. The chatter is all about Terry Francona's relationship with ownship, but is is much more than that. It is a story about a man you loves the games and loves players who love it, also. It is about a man you makes connections and who doesn't forget people, especially the little people. I think the story about the Red Sox trip to Japan and whether the coaches got paid or not is emblematic. Francona was extremely proud that his players wanted to strike on behalf of the coaches. It is just too bad that the team never quite managed to win after that. I think Francona understands that baseball is a business, but he resents it when the business gets in the way of the game itself. I loved him as manager and I know know why.