The best-selling sportswriter Dan Shaughnessy preserves baseball history for all posterity in his absorbing account of the Red Sox's championship season, the season that capped a story eighty-six years in the making. A more epic sports saga could not have been invented: the curse that began with Babe Ruth; the bitter Yankees-Sox standoff, which ESPN named the number one sports rivalry of all time; and a team of comeback kids determined to prove their mettle. With unparalleled access, a keen sense of history, and penetrating insight, Shaughnessy captures the season in all its drama and euphoria. "Even the voracious reader of all things Red Sox will find richness," as Bill Nowlin noted in the Boston Globe, but sports fans who have never set foot in Fenway Park will also appreciate Shaughnessy's insider vantage. With full-color photos by the Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Stan Grossfeld, Reversing the Curse is the definitive record of the single greatest sports story of our lifetime.