Sportswriter John Powers met with Somerville Library patrons in support of the release of his and co-author Ron Driscoll’s Fenway Park: A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest, Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America.~Photo by Harry Kane

By Harry Kane

Sportswriter John Powers co-wrote the quintessential Red Sox book, Fenway Park: A Salute to the Coolest, Cruelest, Longest-Running Major League Baseball Stadium in America, in reaction to the ballpark’s 100-year anniversary.

Powers was at the Somerville Library signing books and promoting his book this past week.

The nearly 300 page historical saga covers the ballpark from its inception to last year’s debacle.

Powers became enamored with the ball club from an early age. The book gave him a chance to “revert to childhood” and relay the incredible ups and downs of the ball club with an imaginative vivid storytelling perspective.

Compiling the first ten years of Red Sox history took extensive research over the six-month writing period, which Powers and co-author Ron Driscoll spent on a digital platform, searching for facts. Ten years ago the microfilm hadn’t been digitized so it would have made the book “too hard to write,” said Powers.

The book discusses the baseball legends, architectural renovations, and more.