Doug Bailey was a Boston Globe reporter. Then he was a P.R. man. His P.R. firm repped Les Otten and Tom Werner, who went on to buy the Red Sox. From 2001 through 2006 Bailey handled P.R. and communications for the Sox, and in his words, he “got to know these people pretty well over the years, got to see them at their best and their worst.”
Some of the more interesting things: how the Sox gave out bags of infield “dirt” to fans that wasn’t dirt. The actually quite obvious secret as to how the Fenway grass looks so green. Nomar Garciaparra asking if the International Space Station is as big as Fenway Park. And, of course, some juicy inside-the-front-office stuff:
Clearly, factions were forming on Yawkey Way, roughly around one group that felt Lucchino had amassed too much power and was butting into everything, particularly baseball operations, and another that believed Epstein was more lucky than talented and owed his entire baseball existence to Lucchino. The conflict led to some tense moments and intensified the club’s already ingrained obsession with unauthorized leaks to the press.
It’s a long article so pull up a chair. But it’s nice and juicy too, so you’ll enjoy it.
