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Hey everybody. I'm Justin McGuire.

This is episode 302 of Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.

Yes, folks, you are listening to the podcast, in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.

Let's get right to it today.

We are joined by author Eric Sherman.

He is a baseball historian and the New York Times best-selling author of Kings of Queens,

Life Beyond Baseball with the 86 Mets.

He is the co-author of several other books including Mookie, Life, Baseball, and the 86 Mets. He is the co-author of several other books, including Mookie, Life, Baseball, and the 86 Mets.

Today he's here to talk about his new book.

It's called Two Sides of Glory,

the 1986 Boston Red Sox, in their own words.

I'd like to thank Anthony Garzilli for his help in putting this episode together.

Let's get started.

Hi, Eric, welcome to baseball by the book. Hi, Justin. Nice to be on the show. I had an editor back

when I was working at Sporting News who told me people don't want to read about the loser,

right? They don't want to read about the losing team.

So if it's the Super Bowl, if it's the World Series, if it's the Final Four, let's, you know,

concentrate our energies on writing about the winning team because the fans of the losing team aren't going to want to read anything.

And we'll just be wasting our time and effort. Now, obviously, you didn't take that kind of advice in putting this

book together, and I'm glad you didn't because I think the result is a really interesting book.

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