This Is Our City: Four Teams, Twelve Championships, and How Boston Became the Most Dominant Sports City in the World

This Is Our City is a celebration of two decades of sports success in Boston from the cohost of the #1 sports radio show in New England, Felger & Mazz.

Boston is a unique sports city. Unlike New York, Los Angeles, or Chicago, New Englanders' loyalties are not divided among competing franchises; in the four major American sports, the city has one team each: the Red Sox, the Celtics, the Bruins, and the Patriots.

And, as any Boston fan will tell you, that loyalty runs deep. Sports just seem to mean more in New England. Over 20 years, those fans have been blessed with an extraordinary run of success, including 12 championships, six runners-up, and many more years of heated contention. In the 21st century, Boston became Titletown.

According to Tony Massarotti, longtime Boston sports columnist and host of the #1 sports radio show in New England for the past 10 years, this is not a coincidence. This Is Our City paints a portrait of the last 20 years in Boston sports, showing how one team's success has led to the next--how they have fed off each other, tried to one-up one another, and have supported each other. This is an account of an era where successes and failures stitched together the region, all playing out against major events such as 9/11 and the devastating Boston Marathon--which led to a memorably profane speech by David Ortiz, who declared, "This is our f@#king city!" Massarotti's This Is Our City is a valentine to Boston sports and will be loved by those fans, wherever they now live.

ISBN-13: 9781419753589

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: Abrams Press

Publication Date: 10-18-2022

Pages: 384

Product Dimensions: 9.20(w) x 6.20(h) x 1.30(d)

As the cohost of Felger & Mazz, the #1 sports radio show in New England with millions of listeners, Boston-based Tony Massarotti has direct dialogue with fans and potential book buyers five hours a day, five days a week. He is enormously well-connected and a huge draw for fans. And he can write. He is, of course, well-known nationally having been a go-to person on the Red Sox during their run during this time.

Table of Contents

Prologue 1

Chapter 1 The Seeds of a Dynasty 11

Chapter 2 Burying the Past 45

Chapter 3 A Changing of the Guard 70

Chapter 4 Higher Standards 88

Chapter 5 The Perfect Nightmare 103

Chapter 6 Green Days 124

Chapter 7 The Puck Stops Here 138

Chapter 8 Broken Windows 170

Chapter 9 Marathon Monday 185

Chapter 10 Boston Rises 203

Chapter 11 Darkness and Defeat 222

Chapter 12 The Empire Strikes Back 239

Chapter 13 The C's Rise … Then Fall 260

Chapter 14 Same Old Bruins 276

Chapter 15 Costly Mistakes 296

Chapter 16 Out with a Bang 321

Chapter 17 Starting Over 343

Acknowledgments 359

Index 363

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