The 1950s Red Sox were teeming with huge stories. You might know about Ted Williams, of course, but con- sider his teammates: Harry Agganis, a legendary local athlete whose tragic death is remembered by millions in the region; or Jimmy Piersall, whose illness and breakdown led to a book and two movies; or Jackie Jensen, a famous collegiate football star who forged a great career with the Red Sox. The Red Sox are famous for failing to integrate until 1959, the last team to do so. Depicted here are the people mostly blamed for this oversight (Tom Yawkey, Joe Cronin, and Mike Higgins), as well as the man who finally broke the color line (Pumpsie Green). Red Sox Baseball in the Days of Ike and Elvis is part of an ongoing series of books of baseball biographies created by members of SABRa??s Baseball Biography Project. Most of these books have focused on great or iconic team- seasons; this book attempts to give a look at an entire decade. The 1950s werena??t a decade in which the Boston...

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