Maple Street Press Red Sox Annual 2007 goes far beyond the basics and gives diehard Sox fans the detailed coverage of the team they crave. In collaboration with renowned Red Sox website Sons of Sam Horn, it provides over 100 pages of the most complete and in-depth coverage of the Red Sox available.
After another offseason of upheaval there are many questions facing the Red Sox as they enter the new season. Why did the Red Sox sign JD Drew? Is he worth the money? Is Julio Lugo going to be at shortstop for more than one year? Will Coco Crisp bounce back? Chad Finn gives a position-by-position break down of the new-look roster and what to watch for in the coming season. With the expanded room, the Annual is also able to go beyond the standard topics and examine things such as:
- The story behind Dirty Water and how the now beloved song came to be the Red Sox victory anthem;
- How winning impacts the Red Sox’s financial returns and off-season investments;
- A thorough look at the courtship of Daisuke Matsuzaka from Rob Bradford;
- How the offense cost the team a postseason appearance last season and what Theo Epstein has done to make sure that doesn’t happen again;
- A detailed deconstruction of Theo Epstein’s bullpens over his tenure, and what to look for from his latest group of relievers;
- Where Manny Ramirez and David Ortiz rank amongst the greatest 1-2 punches in baseball history; and
- How the Red Sox’s new approach to the amateur draft might allow them to have an influx of premium talent
This and more is all packed into over 100 full-color pages of Red Sox coverage (not ads) unlike anything else available in print. This is a publication by Red Sox fans for Red Sox fans, and provides a level of coverage national publications cannot match.
