Fall River Dreams: A Team’s Quest for Glory, A Town’s Search for Its Soul
“Reynolds uncovers, in a moving and sensitive book, the desperate values of a city whose only dream is basketball glory.” [Newsday]
“A marvelous book.” [The Boston Globe]
“Poignant.” [USA Today]
“Reynolds does a fine job …Fall River Dreams illustrates that sports can provide marvelous highs, but the joy of achievement can be supplanted by the desperate need to win – again and again and again.” [The New York Times]
LOST SUMMER: The ’67 Red Sox and the Impossible Dream
“A treasure … written with such grace and humanity that it reads like a novel.” [Doris Kearns Goodwin]
“A terrific book.” [Leigh Montville, Sports Illustrated]
COUSY: His Life, Career and the Birth of Big-Time Basketball
“(an) insightful, well-written biography …Reynolds does a remarkable job illuminating the sport’s early days in the 1940’s …But the book’s best parts are those in which Reynolds illuminates how Cousy’s impoverished 1930’s youth … created in him a drive to succeed …” [Publishers’ Weekly]
“Voluble, basketball-savvy tour of Boston Celtic great Bob Cousy’s life … Reynolds does a beautiful job of painting Cousy, right down to his French lisp … Not only an insightful biography, but a shining history of the early NBA as well.” [Kirkus Reviews]
’78: The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game , and a Divided City
“Reynolds does a superb job of stitching this baseball story into the larger tapestry of racial unrest that had Boston seething thirty years ago.” [The Dayton Daily News]
“(A) wide-ranging, zeitgeist-laden account of the terrible year that saw the Red Sox in first place in the American League East by a wide margin in July and humbled by the despised Yankees in October.” [The Boston Globe]
OUR GAME: The Story of New England Basketball
“Where some describe what they see or capture what they’ve learned, Reynolds is the rare scribe who did it himself and feels every bit of it. This is a basketball player with the gift of observation. The thrill of the race up-court or the last-second jumper comes back to anyone who ever played the game when they read OUR GAME.” [Doris Burke – ESPN basketball analyst]
“Bill Reynolds is a man who has great feeling for the game of basketball. In OUR GAME, he dedicates himself to capturing all of the golden moments and characters of New England basketball. Trust me, Bill Reynolds is a winner!” [Dick Vitale, ESPN/ABC- TV commentator]