Not Till the Fat Lady Sings: Boston: Boston's Most Dramatic Sports Finishes - Hardcover

This city's storied sports history includes dynasties and underdogs, heroes and goats, triumphs and curses - and curses reversed. Taken together, the Red Sox, Patriots, Celtics, Bruins, and Revolution provide drama enough. But then there's also Boston's unrivaled college scene, Olympic heroes, surprising amateurs and scrappy high school and little league teams battling to conclusions that are simply too spectacular to leave off this list.

In Not Till the Fat Lady Sings, the respected writers and photographers of The Boston Globe recall the most fantastic finishes in all of Boston sports, presenting them in a way that is both nostalgic and contemporary, with fresh insight into why these moments matter. They take you back to when Doug Flutie launched The Pass, John Havlicek stole the ball, Bobby Orr leaped into legend, and Carl Yastrzemski made folks believe an impossible dream. They bring you the stories of marathoners, boxers, golfers, and many other great athletes, past and present. And they chronicle the heartbreak as well as the joy, because Bostonians know better than anybody that Yogi Berra was right when he said, "It ain't over till it's over."

That's the message Doug Flutie delivers in his revealing foreword to this book, and it's what powers a special introduction written by Dan Shaughnessy, who has seen every kind of finish in his quarter century as a celebrated Globe sports columnist. Not Till the Fat Lady Sings is about overcoming adversity and having the guts to go for the big play. Its pages remember why Boston will always believe in miracles: they've happened.

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