Feeding the Green Monster: One Man's Season at Fenway Park

by Rob Neyer

Feeding the Green Monster is an invaluable and unique addition to baseball writing from one of its best informed columnists.

In the spring of 2000, baseball fanatic and ESPN.com columnist Rob Neyer set out to live every baseball fan's dream. He would spend the next six months attending every one of the Boston Red Sox's home games. His journal of the season that followed, "Feeding the Green Monster," is a candid look at baseball as it's played today. While there are the ups (when the Red Sox led their division) and the downs (when the Red Sox eventually

Genres: Baseball, Sports, Nonfiction

324 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 2001

Reviews

[Patrick Barry]

Rob Neyer chronicles in diary form the 2000 Boston Red Sox season. He attends Fenway Park for every Red Sox home game. The book suffers because it is an uninspiring season for the Red Sox, with the exception of the marvelous work turned in by Pedro Martinez. It is interesting to hear the arguments for replacing Fenway, arguments thankfully since dismissed. And it is a decent though uneven tale back in a time before the curse was broken.

[Christopher Sigurdson]

This is a great book for passionate fans of baseball who dream of spending an entire year attending every home game at Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Following the dream of seeing the Red Sox win their first World Series since 1918, Rob Neyer decided to watch their season the hard way. There were no season tickets, each game required finding a scalper, a friend with tickets, or some other way of getting into the ballpark. This meant that he watched games from every part of the park, getting a true feeling of the landmark that is Fenway Park. Probably not for the casual fan, but a required read for those who call themselves fans of the nation's pastime.

[Mike]

I've been reading Rob Neyer since he went to ESPN.com back in the mid-'90s. Great writer, good with baseball stats, and pretty witty. The book was very good back when it came out in 2001 and would probably stand up to this day. Neyer went to all 81 games at Fenway Park and wrote about his experience, including spending the night in the park.