3.5
Faithful
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“Faithful isn't just about the Red Sox. It's also about family, friendship, and what it truly means to be a baseball fan and to be—well, faithful, come hell or high water” (The Boston Globe).
“Of all the books that will examine the Boston Red Sox's stunning come-from-behind 2004 ALCS win over the Yankees and subsequent World Series victory, none will have this book's warmth, personality, or depth” (Publishers Weekly).
Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle the upcoming season, one of the most hotly anticipated in baseball history. They would sit together at Fenway. They would exchange emails. They would write about the games. And, as it happened, they would witness the greatest comeback ever in sports, and the first Red Sox championship in eighty-six years. What began as a Sox-filled summer like any other is now a fan's notes for the ages.
“Of all the books that will examine the Boston Red Sox's stunning come-from-behind 2004 ALCS win over the Yankees and subsequent World Series victory, none will have this book's warmth, personality, or depth” (Publishers Weekly).
Early in 2004, two writers and Red Sox fans, Stewart O'Nan and Stephen King, decided to chronicle the upcoming season, one of the most hotly anticipated in baseball history. They would sit together at Fenway. They would exchange emails. They would write about the games. And, as it happened, they would witness the greatest comeback ever in sports, and the first Red Sox championship in eighty-six years. What began as a Sox-filled summer like any other is now a fan's notes for the ages.
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Hex it’s Jaff
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“Look, this is just personal not a comment on the actual writing , I don’t know anything about about baseball.
I sure did read it
It sure was less of a drag than the Colorado Kid
At least I know that Stephen King is a nerd about tv soaps now”
Kelsey DiMauro
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“I have tried many times to get excited about baseball, but I just can’t do it. I find the game exceptionally bland. Unless I’m at a ballpark with a hot dog and a beer, I’m not really interested in watching a game (with the exception of that one game the Cubs won that one time that was super exciting). I get the game, I truly do, it’s just boring. One of my grandfathers was a huge baseball guy, and I wanted to be able to share that with him, but between my not caring about the game and his not wanting to be distracted during games, that was not to be. Why, then, did I decide to read a book that is HUGE and exclusively about the Boston Red Sox?
Because it’s a Stephen King, that’s why.
I admit I had not head of Stewart O’Nan prior to picking up this book, but I’m now intrigued and might actually look up his other books. Having been a Stephen King fan for decades, I felt like I needed to give this one a read (largely because it’s one of the only books by him that I hadn’t yet read). I knew it was going to be about baseball, so I steeled myself for a lesson in tolerating blandness. I’m sure for fans of the game, especially fans of Boston, this book would be far more intriguing, but for me it was boring as hell.
The four stars I decided to give this book were based entirely on the amount of time and effort these two men put into it. Both of these men are successful authors and they both are involved family men. How they found the time to consume baseball to this extent blew my mind. It’s set up like a daily journal throughout the season, starting with Spring Training and ending with an unlikely World Series win in 2004. They both attended Spring Training in Florida, then a LARGE number of games throughout the season, somehow managing to juggle their love for the game with their careers and families. AND they both managed to write about it…a lot. I firmly believe they didn’t sleep that entire season.
I was impressed by the dedication these guys had to chronicle everything about that season, even if I wasn’t impressed with the subject matter. It’s certainly not their fault I’m not a baseball fan. It’s an impressive work, but skip it if you’re not a Stephen King fanatic or a huge Boston Red Sox fan.”
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About Stewart O'Nan
Stewart O’Nan’s award-winning fiction includes Snow Angels, A Prayer for the Dying, Last Night at the Lobster, and Emily, Alone. His novel The Odds was hailed by The Boston Globe as “a gorgeous fable, a stunning meditation and a hope-filled Valentine.” Granta named him one of America’s Best Young Novelists. He was born and raised and lives in Pittsburgh.
Other books by Stewart O'Nan
Stephen King
Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Never Flinch (May 2025), the short story collection You Like It Darker (a New York Times Book Review top ten horror book of 2024), Holly (a New York Times Notable Book of 2023), Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, Doctor Sleep, and Firestarter are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America Literary Service Award, the 2014 National Medal of Arts, and the 2003 National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. He lives in Bangor, Maine, with his wife, novelist Tabitha King.
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