Professor Voices » Red Sox http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices Opinions and views by Boston University experts Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:10:33 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 Can the Red Sox keep it going? http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/07/15/can-red-sox-keep-it-going/ http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/07/15/can-red-sox-keep-it-going/#comments Fri, 15 Jul 2011 17:24:16 +0000 Kira Jastive http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/?p=2148 With the All-Star break over, all eyes in baseball are now on October. So, can the Boston Red Sox keep their season going strong?  Thomas Whalen, Associate Professor of Social Science at Boston University and author of When the Red Sox Ruled: Baseball’s First Dynasty 1912 – 1918 (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc.), offers analysis on the 2011 season so far and looks ahead to the second half.

 

Contact Whalen at 978-888-3131 or tjw64@comcast.net.


]]> http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/07/15/can-red-sox-keep-it-going/feed/ 0 Just in time for baseball season: BU professor’s new book chronicles when the Red Sox ruled http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/04/01/when-the-red-sox-ruled/ http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/2011/04/01/when-the-red-sox-ruled/#comments Fri, 01 Apr 2011 14:31:17 +0000 Kira Jastive http://blogs.bu.edu/professorvoices/?p=1027 As the new Major League Baseball season gets underway, Thomas Whalen, associate professor of social science at Boston University, talks about his new book, When the Red Sox Ruled: Baseball’s First Dynasty 1912 – 1918 (Rowman & Littlefield Publishing, Inc.). 

The book, which highlights such iconic players as Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, “Smokey” Joe Wood and Bill Carrigan, tells the story of baseball’s coming out party as a major professsional sports league and how the team put aside their cultural and political differences in the clubhouse to create greatness on the field.


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