{"id":8840,"date":"2011-04-01T10:35:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=8840"},"modified":"2011-04-01T12:25:44","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:25:44","slug":"when-the-red-sox-ruled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/04\/01\/when-the-red-sox-ruled\/","title":{"rendered":"Just in time for baseball season: BU professor&#8217;s new book chronicles when the Red Sox ruled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the new Major League Baseball season gets underway, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cgs\/faculty\/social-sciences-faculty-profiles\/whalen\/\" target=\"_blank\">Thomas Whalen<\/a>, associate professor of social science at Boston University, talks about his new book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowmanlittlefield.com\/Catalog\/SingleBook.shtml?command=Search&amp;db=^DB\/CATALOG.db&amp;eqSKUdata=1566637457&amp;thepassedurl=[thepassedurl]\" target=\"_blank\">When the Red Sox Ruled: Baseball&#8217;s First Dynasty 1912 &#8211; 1918 <\/a><\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rowmanlittlefield.com\/index.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishing, Inc.<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The book, which\u00a0highlights such iconic players\u00a0as Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, &#8220;Smokey&#8221; Joe Wood and Bill Carrigan, tells the story of baseball&#8217;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.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"311\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NWqC9551row\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\r\ntweetmeme_url = 'http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/04\/01\/when-the-red-sox-ruled\/';\r\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/tweetmeme.com\/i\/scripts\/button.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script>  <iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2011\/04\/01\/when-the-red-sox-ruled\/&amp;layout=box_count&amp;show_faces=false&amp;width=50&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light&amp;height=65\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden;width:50px;height:65px\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s First Dynasty 1912 &#8211; 1918 (Rowman &amp; Littlefield Publishing, Inc.).\u00a0 The book, which\u00a0highlights such iconic players\u00a0as Babe Ruth, Tris Speaker, Harry Hooper, &#8220;Smokey&#8221; Joe Wood [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":606,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4491],"tags":[5577,5580,5408,176,5578,47,5581,5575,2907,5579,5576],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/606"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8840"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8844,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8840\/revisions\/8844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}