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'78: The Boston Red Sox, A Historic Game, and a Divided City
The thrilling inside story behind a crucial chapter in Red Sox lore�and a turbulent time in a troubled city.
George Steinbrenner called it the greatest game in the history of American sports. On a bright October day in 1978, the Boston Red Sox met the New York Yankees for an epic playoff game that would send one team to the World Series, and render the other cursed for alm...more
George Steinbrenner called it the greatest game in the history of American sports. On a bright October day in 1978, the Boston Red Sox met the New York Yankees for an epic playoff game that would send one team to the World Series, and render the other cursed for alm...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
March 31st 2009
by NAL Hardcover
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Bill Reynolds dives into far more than a great baseball game in this account of the 1978 American League East playoff game between the Red Sox and the Damnyankees. Here baseball in Fenway Park is placed in the context of the racial, social, and economic divisions ravaging Boston at the time. Reynolds tells the tale of a city struggling to reconcile a view of itself as an enlightened center of civilization against the ugly hatred and violence that was daily tearing Boston apart. Underneath it all...more
What fun ! A book about the Red Sox losing one of the better baseball games ever. While the Author stretches out the amazing 1978 Eastern Division playoff game between The Sox and The Yankees over the course of the book, filling out the story with unknown (to me) anecdotes (Example: When Don Zimmer later became Yankees bench coach, he once rented Bucky Dent's beach house for a season; finding the walls covered with photos of Dent hitting his 7th inning home run, he went around the house turning...more
There are a couple things you can do to really piss off someone from Boston. You can tell them you're a Laker fan. You can tell them that Tom Brady's tuck rule call really WAS a fumble. But if you really want to enrage someone from Boston just say two words--Bucky Dent. Or three words if you're from Boston since he's known there as Bucky Fucking Dent.
This book by Bill Reynolds chronicles the 163rd game of the 1978 season between the Red Sox and Yankees that determined the AL East winner. Reynold...more
This book by Bill Reynolds chronicles the 163rd game of the 1978 season between the Red Sox and Yankees that determined the AL East winner. Reynold...more
A fascinating book detailing the playoff game between the Red Sox and the Yankees in 1978 set against the backdrop of the busing crisis in Boston. The book alternates chapters between a description of the game (complete with history of the players and other major characters) and a history of the busing crisis as well as a sociological look at Boston in the 1970s. It was well written, interesting, and well paced. It needed more pictures and the end seemed slightly forced. I think it would be hard...more
Great mix of paralell stories. Heavier into the backstories on the baseball side, but the bussing stories mixed in well. No "moral of the story" here, but a well written, engaging read. Very enjoyable.
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Bill Reynolds is a sports columnist for The Providence Journal and the author of several previous books, including Fall River Dreams and (with Rick Pitino) the #1 New York Times bestseller Success Is a Choice. He lives in Providence, Rhode Island."
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