Feeding the Monster: How Money, Smarts, and Nerve Took a Team to the Top By Seth Mnookin
After their World Series victory in 2004, the Boston Red Sox granted Mnookin, now a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, virtually unlimited access both to the team and to the front office. The "monster" in this detailed account refers less to Fenway's left-field wall than to the frenzy of attention that the Red Sox excite. He tells a gripping tale of how the organization coalesced to finally bring Red Sox Nation its first world championship since 1918. Like a true soap opera, this book is filled with heroes and villains.