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Dan Shaughnessy

Biography

Dan Shaughnessy

Dan Shaughnessy is an award-winning columnist for the Boston Globe and the author of 12 sports books, including THE CURSE OF THE BAMINO, a bestselling classic. Nine times Shaughnessy has been voted one of America’s top ten sports columnists by the Associated Press Sports Editors and ten times he has been named Massachusetts Sportswriter of the Year. He has appeared on "Good Morning America," "The Today Show," "The Early Show," CNN, Nightline, NPR, Imus in the Morning, ESPN, HBO, and many others. He lives in Newton, Massachusetts.

Books by Dan Shaughnessy

Francona: The Red Sox Years
by Terry Francona and Dan Shaughnessy - Nonfiction, Sports

From 2004 to 2011, Terry Francona managed the Boston Red Sox, one of the most talked-about and scrutinized teams in all of sports. In FRANCONA, the legendary manager opens up for the first time about his eight years there, as they went from cursed franchise to one of the most successful and profitable in baseball history.

Reversing the Curse: Inside the 2004 Boston Red Sox
by Dan Shaughnessy - History, Nonfiction, Sports

For nearly a century, the Boston Red Sox played the underdog to the indomitable New York Yankees in what ESPN named the number-one sports rivalry of all time. But in 2004 the snakebitten Sox finally got their revenge: a season in which a plucky team of comeback kids improbably brought down the House That Ruth Built and went on to right 86 years of jinxed history by winning Boston's first World Series since 1918. With lively reporting, penetrating insight, and a keen sense of history, Shaughnessy brings the 2004 season alive in all its glory, drama, and euphoria, definitively recounting a sports saga that will long be etched in the minds and hearts of baseball fans around the world.