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Now I Can Die in Peace: How The Sports Guy Found Salvation Thanks to the World Champion (Twice!) Red Sox Paperback – Illustrated, March 24 2009

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ESPN's beloved Sports Guy replays the years leading up to the Boston Red Sox historic championship season and says goodbye to a lifetime of suffering. At least for now."The Red Sox won the World Series." To Citizen No. 1 of Red Sox Nation, those seven words meant "No more 1918 chants. No more smug glances from Yankee fans. No more worrying about living an entire life -- that's 80 years, followed by death without seeing the Red Sox win a Series."
But once he was able to type those life-changing words, Bill Simmons decided to look back at his Sports Guy columns for the last five years to find out how the miracle came to pass. And that's where the trouble began. Why didnt he see it coming? Why didn't it happen sooner? What was the key deal, the lucky move, the funny bounce, the sign from above that he failed to spot? Pretty soon, The Sports Guy was second-guessing himself, rewriting history, sniping at his own past predictions, pounding the table -- that's what sports guys do, right And doing so, he let himself get sidetracked by the suffering of the Boston Bruins, frustrated by the false promise of the Celtics -- and driven into a state of ecstasy by the dynastic New England Patriots.
The result is Now I Can Die in Peace, a hilarious and fresh new look at some of the best sportswriting in America, with sharp critical commentary (and fresh insights) from the guy who wrote it in the first place.

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468 pages
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Ballantine Books
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March 24 2009
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15.29 x 2.49 x 22.76 cm
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1933060727
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978-1933060729
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Bill Simmons is the CEO of The Ringer and the New York Times bestselling author of Now I Can Die in Peace and The Book of Basketball.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Ballantine Books; Updated ed. edition (March 24 2009)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 468 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1933060727
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1933060729
Item weight ‏ : ‎ 556 g
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 15.29 x 2.49 x 22.76 cm

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Bill Simmons writes "The Sports Guy" column for ESPN.com's Page 2 and ESPN: The Magazine. He is the author of Now I Can Die In Peace, founded the award-winning bostonsportsguy.com website, and was a writer for Jimmy Kimmel Live. He commutes between his home in Los Angeles and Fenway Park.

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MIKE LAPENNA

If you like hs daily ESPN commentary

Reviewed in Canada on August 10, 2016

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Bill Simmons commands one of the funniest, rapier wits and sense of humor found anywhere in the North American sports world today. If you like hs daily ESPN commentary , you will LOVE THIS! BRAVO BILL!

Reviewed in Canada on June 28, 2016

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The book was excellent! and the price was great.

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Richard Mackenzie

A list of losses were never so funny

Reviewed in Canada on August 8, 2006

Maybe because I grew up rooting for the Red Sox at the same time and with a simiar perspective as Bill Simmons (like Simmons, my first hero was Fred Lynn, I never blamed Buckner and always thought the "curse" thing was stupid), this book resonated with me as a Bosox fan.

But, beyond on that, this was the funniest book about sports I have read. And since that limited qualification doesn't do it justice, let me rephrase and say it is quite simply one of the funniest books I have ever read.

Simmons references to pop culture to describe characters in his life and in the lives of the Red Sox and their enemies, which is basically anyone outside of Red Sox Nation, were dead-on, like a Pedro Matinez fastball (cira -1997-99) or a Simpsons episode in its heyday (ironically, cira - 1997-99).

By the end of the book, you find yourself wanting to run-into Simmons and a few of his buddies in a bar to talk about El-Guapo strolling in from the bullpen or just how close Roberts was to be thrown out in game four.

You know, things real Red Sox remember and will always remember.

Well done.

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Five Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 29, 2016

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DU-TH

Das Leben und Leiden eines Baseball-Fans

Reviewed in Germany on May 12, 2010

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Bill Simmons ist der SportsGuy, ein Kolumnist für den amerikanischen TV-Branchenriesen ESPN. Das besondere an seinen Beiträgen ist seine Perspektive: Er nimmt keine neutrale Journalistenrolle ein, sondern schreibt aus seiner Perspektive als Fan von nebenan (der er wahrscheinlich auch wirklich ist). Dabei geht es nicht nur um rein sportliche Dinge, sondern auch um das zweitliebste Hobby eines Fans, nämlich das Fernsehen, aber auch um die Diskussionen mit seiner nicht ganz so sportbegeisterten Frau.
Gleichzeitig ist er aber vor allem auch ein lebenslanger Fan seiner Boston Red Sox, dem Baseballteam seiner Heimatstadt. Die Red Sox hatten 2004 eine 86-jährige Serie von Pleiten, Pech und Pannen hinter sich, in der sie durch Pech und Unvermögen immer wieder die Meisterschaft verspielt hatten.
Bill Simmons beschreibt in seinem einzigartigen Stil die Achterbahnfahrt seiner Gefühle dieser magischen Saison, in der die Red Sox den Fluch durchbrechen und erstmals wieder Meister werden. Dies gelingt ihm, indem er oftmals die Originalartikel dieser Zeit aus der ESPN-Welt übernimmt.
Fazit: Für Baseballfans (und insbesondere für Fans der Boston Red Sox) eine absolute Pflichtlektüre, aber auch für "Nicht-Baseballer" ein absolut kurzweiliges Werk - übrigens in leicht zu lesendem Englisch. Ich habe das Buch an zwei Abenden "verschlungen"!

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HectorOlagues

Un libro muy divertido

Reviewed in Mexico on August 6, 2018

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Una muy buena recomendación para aquellos que buscan libros en un idioma diferente al español. Bill Simmons te mantiene sonriendo con su divertido estilo.

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Lukas

Tolle Erinnerung an 2004

Reviewed in Germany on April 18, 2015

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Gutes Buch, welches die Gedanken eines Fans toll aufgreift. Man bekommt die gleiche Gänsehaut, die man auch vor 11 Jahren bekam. Besondere Kenntnisse der genauen Ereignisse sind nicht nötig, da überall Fußnoten sind.

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Well worth revisiting in this time without baseball...

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2020

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Given all that's changed since when the book was written and today - for baseball, for the Red Sox, and for the author - it's well worth dusting this book off the shelf and appreciating just how good Bill Simmons was as a columnist in the late 1990s/early 2000s. I loved the ESPN Page 2 website, which has never been adequately replicated to this day, and the columns that make up this book were Simmons on this site at his absolute best - passionate, opinionated, blending a love of sports with relatable pop culture. He was such a great columnist that it was a shame when he graduated into other media and left the writing behind. I wasn't a Boston sports fan but you could relate to his passion for these teams. Well worth buying if you remember those days scrolling the Page 2 website for Bill Simmons' columns, or for the Red Sox fan in your life. Strongly recommend!

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