Tony Massarotti

The Boston Red Sox better be careful. After two world championships in three seasons, they can no longer count on the pity of baseball fans as the poor little waifs who can’t seem to close the deal, no longer David to the Yankees’ Goliath. Fortunately, interest in the team is still high, as evidenced by the number of new Sox books, including DYNASTY: The Inside Story of How the Red Sox Became a Baseball Powerhouse by Boston Herald sportswriter Tony Massarotti. Are the Bostonians laying claim already to the adjective that was almost the exclusive purview of the Bronx Bombers? With their recent success, he notes, they are in danger of actually becoming that which they have loathed --- the “evil empire” that had tormented them for lo these many years.… (meer)