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This Is Our City: Four Teams, Twelve Championships, and How Boston Became the Most Dominant Sports City in the World Spiral-Bound | October 18, 2022

Tony Massarotti

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This Is Our City isa 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.
Publisher: ABRAMS
Original Binding: Hardcover with dust jacket
Pages: 384 pages
ISBN-10: 1419753584
Item Weight: 1.4 lbs
Dimensions: 6.0 x 1.4 x 9.0 inches
Customer Reviews: 3 out of 5 stars 31 to 100 ratings
“Boston sports fans have been America’s luckiest in the new millennium. There have been twelve championships to savor in the first twenty-one years of the twenty-first century, including one dazzling run of seven years in which the Patriots, Red Sox, Celtics, and Bruins each won a title. And now Tony Massarotti gives them a chance to relive it all in This Is Our City, which refers to, of course, the famous David Ortiz declaration in the wake of the 2013 Marathon bombings. Tony has done the work, and we get to enjoy the fruits of his phenomenal labor. For those of us who have lived through it all, this is our story, too. Thanks, Tony.”
-Bob Ryan
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.