A. Knoefel Longest is a Boston-based freelance writer with unique ties to the Red Sox and Fenway Park. Working directly behind the Fenway Park press box, he has spent the better part of five seasons at the very epicenter of Red Sox Nation. In part because of this intimacy, his weekly "Scrapbook of a Season" column on The Remy Report has become a favorite of its substantial fan base. Based on the popularity of this column, his first book, IDIOT-SYNCRACIES (Adams Media, 2005), quickly became a regional bestseller, with surprisingly strong sales nationwide. In promotion of which the author made numerous television and radio appearances, both local and national, including spots on the NECN Morning Show and CN8’s SportsPulse. Since then he has been asked back to offer his unique Red Sox perspective to many of these same programs.

Books by A. Knoefel Longest

Idiot-Syncracies: How The Red Sox Were Smart Enough To Win The World Series

by A. Knoefel Longest - History, Nonfiction, Sports

Why this team? Why these players? Why this year --- after an 86-year losing streak? In IDIOT-SYNCRACIES, popular Remy Report columnist A. Knoefel Longest presents the passion, peculiarities, and personalities that make this the most unlikely team in baseball history to win the World Series. Written in Longest's inimitable style, and with a foreword by former Red Sox player and now Red Sox sportscaster Jerry Remy, the book consists of two parts: The Lineup and The Staff. Peppered throughout the text will be sidebars and boxes that speak to the Red Sox past --- triumphs and disappointments, parallels and pitfalls, heroes and fools.