Review
"This small book is a true gem, its facets glittery with obsession, sorrow, and the treacheries of hope. It appears to be about baseball and the Boston Red Sox; it is really about life, and loss, and the long grieving ache of unrequited love."
--Pete Hamill

Book Description
DESTINY 5 - RED SOX 4 declared one Boston headline after Bucky Dent's unlikely home run had cost the Red Sox the dramatic 1978 playoff game at Fenway Park against the Yankees for the Eastern Division title of the American League. No one has commented more eloquently and openly on destiny's victories over the Sox and their devoted fans through the years than writer and New York radio personality Jonathan Schwartz, who left his heart in Fenway at an early age. Schwartz's stirring and unusually intimate account of the beauty and heartbreak of that resplendent day in '78 appeared in Sports Illustrated in 1979. It is now issued, on the 25th anniversary of the game, with a new autobiographical essay in which Schwartz reflects on the Sox, his life, and destiny's various line-ups in the two decades since Dent. With an Introduction by Boston Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan.






For myself who was at Fenway Park on October 2, 1978 this book captures the pain as well as any written about the Sox and their fans. I recommend this book highly.