"Fenway Park, Boston's "lyric little bandbox" and the home of the doleful Red Sox, has served up more New England tears than the Parker House Hotel has rolls. Ever since 1918, the year Harry Frazee sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees for thirty pieces of silver, Red Sox fans have seen great campaigns snuffed out by dismal postseason lapses." "Now a death of a more literal variety has slunk past the gates on Yankee Way. It's Old Timers' Day at Fenway - three innings of nostalgia, buffet lines, and straining uniform buttons. As Red Sox bygones are being heaped upon bygones, two ex-Sox whose critical blunders at crucial moments have robbed the franchise of World Series titles are struck down like line drives whacked at the Green Monster. Perhaps not coincidentally, the two victims were also partners in an attempt to buy the franchise from an embattled Beacon Hill widow." "It happens in front of veteran sportswriter and ballpark sleuth Duffy House. and his chowder-loving niece, Petey. Quicker than you can say one-if-by-Pesky, two-if-by-Buckner, they are dispatched by the commissioner of baseball to delve into the tart intrigues of the Red Sox. From jaundiced sportswriters, lunatic outfielders, and embittered black stars to Zen-loving former pitchers, aloof Hall-of-Famers, and unbalanced South Boston groundskeepers - in short, the pantheon of Fenway Park's denizens through the years - Duffy and Petey have no shortage of Back Bay suspects." "In an investigation that transforms the New England countryside from scenic to sinister, Duffy and Petey encounter their most ruthless ballpark killer yet. They learn what Bostonians have known for decades: Root for the Sox and your heart will break."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved