One of a two-book set featuring the two teams that went head to head in the 1986 World Series, one book on the Mets, and one on the Red Sox. These Red Sox were full of drama all year long, long before Bill Buckner's gaffe. Roger Clemens was young, so was Calvin Schiraldi. The book includes biographies of every player on the 1986 roster, all the coaches, manager, announcers, and write-ups of several key games from the season as well as the World Series.

This book on the 1986 season re-tells the story of that year's classic World Series. After four games, each team had won two away games and neither had won at home. Then the Red Sox won Game Five at Fenway, and were one game away from winning their first World Championship in 86 years. It came to the point they were one pitch away from baseball Nirvana.

And then....

Just about everyone knows what happened, but there are takes on it here you might not have read elsewhere. Mostly, this is the story of each of the players, coaches, managers, and broadcasters, their lives in baseball and the way the 1986 season fit into their lives.

As with many of the books published by the Society of American Baseball Research, this was a true collaborative effort. There are 74 different SABR members who contributed to making these two books on the Mets and Red Sox a reality. It took us two books to tell the story as well as we wanted. Be sure to pick up the companion 1986 New York Mets book for the rest of the story!

Table of Contents:
Tony Armas by Augusto Ca01;rdenas
Marty Barrett by Mark Kanter
Don Baylor by Malcolm Allen & Alfonso L Tusa C
Wade Boggs by Steve West
Oil Can Boyd by Bill Nowlin
Mike Brown by Nick Waddell
Bill Buckner by Jeff English
Roger Clemens by Rick Bush
Steve Crawford by John DiFonzo
Pat Dodson by Bob LeMoine
Dwight Evans by Bill Nowlin
Wes Gardner by Joanne Hulbert
Rich Gedman by Tyler Ash
Mike Greenwell by Joe Wancho
Dave Henderson by Paul Hensler
Glenn Hoffman by Clayton Trutor
Bruce Hurst by Gregory H Wolf
Tim Lollar by Gregory H Wolf
Steve Lyons by Donna L Halper
Al Nipper by Gregory H Wolf
Spike Owen by Norm King
Rey Quinones by John Gregory
Jim Rice by Alex Edelman
Ed Romero by Bill Nowlin
Kevin Romine by Thomas Ayers
Joe Sambito by Gene Gumbs
Dave Sax by Rich Bogovich
Calvin Schiraldi by David Forrester
Tom Seaver by Maxwell Kates
Jeff Sellers by Niall Adler
Bob Stanley by Will Anderson
Dave Stapleton by Tyler Ash
Mike Stenhouse by Mark Sternman
Sammy Stewart by Bill Nowlin
Marc Sullivan by Armand Peterson
LaSchelle Tarver by Mike Richard
Mike Trujillo by Mike Richard
Rob Woodward by Bob LeMoine
Owner, Jean Yawkey by Joan M Thomas
General Manager, Lou Gorman by Daniel R Levitt
Manager, John McNamara by Mark Armour
Coaches
Bill Fischer by Bob LeMoine
Walt Hriniak by David E Skelton
Rene Lachemann by Norm King
Joe Morgan by Rory Costello
Broadcasters
Joe Castiglione by Curt Smith
Ken Coleman by Curt Smith
Ned Martin by Bob LeMoine
Bob Montgomery by Bill Nowlin
Six 1986 Red Sox Games
April 29, 1986 by Cecilia Tan and Bill Nowlin
May 19, 1986 by Michael Huber
May 20, 1986 by Doug Skipper
August 21, 1986 by Bill Nowlin
September 4, 1986 -- Mets/Red Sox exhibition game by Saul Wisnia
September 28, 1986 by Tom Flynn
The 1986 American League Championship Series by Allan Wood
Why was Bill Buckner still on the field at the end of Game Six? by Bill Nowlin
The Revenge of 1912 by David Kaiser
A Parade for the Fallen by Bob Brady
The 1986 World Series by Matthew Silverman
Mike Sergio by Bill Nowlin
By The Numbers by Dan Fields