Tom Yawkey: patriarch of the Boston Red Sox

Introduction

1. A Baseball Santa, Tom Yawkey in 1933

2. Tom Yawkey and Eddie Collins Buy the Red Sox

3. The First Season

4. The First Offseason

5. Tom Yawkey's Past

6. Yawkey at Yale

7. The First Full Season of the Yawkey Era, 1934

8. 1935-1938

9. The Kid Makes the Big Leagues, 1939

10. Before the War, 1940-1941

11. The War Years, 1942-1945

12. Postwar and the Pennant, 1946

13. Strong Seasons, 1947-1950

14. The Early 1950s

15. Doldrums Descend, the Latter 1950s

16. From Ted to Yaz, the First Sox Seasons of the 1960s

17. The Impossible Dream

18. After the Dream

19. Another Game Seven

20. Tom Yawkey's Final Campaign

21. Jean Yawkey in the Late 1970s

22. Tom Yawkey Remembered and the Jean Yawkey Years, 1980-1985

23. The 1986 World Series and the Years That Followed

24. The Passing of Jean Yawkey

25. The Estate, 1994, and Beyond

26. The Yawkey Legacy

27. Tom Yawkey and Race

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index.