A review by bgg616
Murder at Fenway Park by Troy Soos
3.0
The book is Soos' first in a series set in the past, revolving around baseball stadiums. The protagonist is Mickey Rawlings, who is a rookie with the Red Sox, playing at the brand new Fenway Park. His first day, Mick arrives late after a train delay, and stumbles over a dead body. Afraid he is being looked at for the murder, Mick decides to investigate. Although he is a decent ball player, he is a pretty bad detective. Luckily his would-be girlfriend, Peggy and a friend of hers who's a newspaper journalist, are much better investigators.
I learned a good amount of baseball history from this novel. The famous 1912 pitching battle between Joe Wood and Walter Johnson was included in the novel, as was, no surprise, the 1912 World Series which Boston won, defeating the NY Giants. I didn't know Fenway had a hill, later known as Duffy's Cliff, which forced left fielder's to play running uphill. Ty Cobb is a bad guy in the story, no surprise. Soos' description of Boston geography, though not extensive, is accurate. Trolleys were the way to get to Jamaica Plain, and Arnold Arboretum.
This was Soos's debut baseball mystery and a decent novel. I'd read more though this was going to be my favorite being a Red Sox fan, and considering Boston, my hometown. And I am watching the Sox playing in Fenway on tv while writing this.
I learned a good amount of baseball history from this novel. The famous 1912 pitching battle between Joe Wood and Walter Johnson was included in the novel, as was, no surprise, the 1912 World Series which Boston won, defeating the NY Giants. I didn't know Fenway had a hill, later known as Duffy's Cliff, which forced left fielder's to play running uphill. Ty Cobb is a bad guy in the story, no surprise. Soos' description of Boston geography, though not extensive, is accurate. Trolleys were the way to get to Jamaica Plain, and Arnold Arboretum.
This was Soos's debut baseball mystery and a decent novel. I'd read more though this was going to be my favorite being a Red Sox fan, and considering Boston, my hometown. And I am watching the Sox playing in Fenway on tv while writing this.