"Whether or not a reader is a Red Sox fan, a Mets fan, or a neutral observer for that epic showdown, this book is one that every reader who has any interest in the sport should read."—Lance Smith , Guy Who Reviews Sports Books
“I thought I knew everything there was to know about the 1986 Red Sox. I lived with them all season, on the buses and in the hotels. I wrote a book on them. But all these years later Erik Sherman has taken a deeper dive, and the result is enlightening. Two Sides of Glory is the final word on Boston’s most star-crossed team.”—Dan Shaughnessy, author of One Strike Away and The Curse of the Bambino
“In many ways 1986 defined Red Sox history from 1918 to 2004. After Game Six, I took the elevator down, and when the door opened, there was Mike Torrez, who shouted, ‘I’m off the hook!’ It was the year Roger Clemens exploded, Bruce Hurst was a ballast, Bill Buckner limped bravely, and David Henderson took the region. I have always believed they would have won had Tom Seaver not gotten hurt. But he did, and Erik Sherman has captured the voices from an unforgettable season.”—Peter Gammons, J. G. Taylor Spink Award recipient and author of Beyond the Sixth Game
“In baseball as in life, there’s a compelling poignancy to the near miss. Does it haunt you? Does the hurt fade away? How does it shape the rest of your life? In Two Sides of Glory Erik Sherman lets the 1986 Boston Red Sox give us those answers, visiting the stars of that unforgettable season—Wade Boggs, Roger Clemens, Dwight Evans, Jim Rice, and more—for a fascinating series of intimate portraits of the men who came within one strike of World Series glory.”—Tyler Kepner, baseball writer for the New York Times and author of K: A History of Baseball in Ten Pitches
“Erik Sherman’s interviews with the players are invariably intimate and always interesting, making Two Sides of Glory an absorbing read even for a baseball fan like me who has no sympathy for the Red Sox as an institution.”—David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and author of Clemente
“In a captivating collection of character sketches about the players from the almost-legendary 1986 Red Sox, Erik Sherman unearths the human side of these men in a way no one has ever done before. . . . It seems like every page has details that have never been reported.”—Ian Browne, Red Sox beat reporter for MLB.com and author of Idiots Revisited