Bill Lee muses what might have been starting with Joe Kennedy and not Harry Frazee buying the Red Sox in 1916.
Bill goes a little over the deep end with this, but it is a fun (just don't take it serious read)
some comments on the Barnes and Noble site
From The Critics
The New York Times
You don't have to love the Red Sox to enjoy this book, but it helps if you hate the Yankees. — David Kelly
Library Journal
A Revisionist Red Sox History, which considers such parallel universe outcomes as bootlegger Joe Kennedy's buying the team and befriending Babe Ruth or Adolf Hitler's inventing the Wave while visiting Fenway Park.
Customer Reviews
Bill Nowlin a diehard Sox fan from Boston., April 11, 2003,
an imaginative look at how Red Sox history MIGHT have been!
Ever wonder how things might have been different if the Red Sox had not sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees? There might have been Red Sox players walking around with more World Series rings than they could wear on ten fingers. Bill Lee and Jim Prime float some flights of fancy here - suppose Harry Frazee didn't buy the Sox and Joseph P. Kennedy had. Suppose Ruth stayed put in Boston. Suppose the Red Sox actually signed Jackie Robinson at that infamous tryout he had in Boston. Suppose Ted Williams really had killed Adolf Hitler with a line drive. What?? You have to read the book to find out. You'll be entertained with the photo of Bucky Dent as the concert pianist he became, when he chose the keyboards over the ballfield. You'll see Bill Lee conferring with Albert Einstein. Jackie Robinson becomes President of the US. Bill Lee is one of the more fertile minds in baseball, and Jim Prime a skillful writer who had helped corral some of 'The Spaceman's' ideas and added more than a few of his own. Any Red Sox fan who needs to have their spirits lifted momentarily will find this an easy, fun read.
