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 enlarge | Author: Richard Bradley
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 304
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Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1416534385
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357640974
EAN: 9781416534389
ASIN: 1416534385
Publication Date: March 18, 2008
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 The Best Book On The Late 70s Rivalry In A LONG While! March 18, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
Every time a new book comes out on the Yankee teams of the late 70s, which were the first ones I experienced as a child, I keep hoping that it will be a book with some fresh, new insights. Most of the time, the results are very disappointing. Roger Kahn, Maury Allen and Phil Pepe have weighed in with books of their own in recent years and I have found them lacking because for the most part these authors are either too much rooted in the nostalgia for 50s baseball to do justice to the subject of the late 70s (when you read Kahn and Allen you end up seeing more digressions about the 50s than about the later years for the most part!) or they just rehash stuff that was written in books that came out years ago (Pepe's new book was a letdown because there wasn't a single thing I hadn't already read in the autbios of Nettles and Reggie, not to mention the Bill Madden/Moss Klein book from 1990).
That's why Richard Bradley's book was such a breath of fresh air. *Finally* I felt like I was getting the story of 1978 told from a new angle and with some fresh insights on the players, and the race pennant race preceding the game. The alternating chapters of PBP of the game with the background details is not a new feature in baseball books (done with Game 7 of the 60 WS, and Buster Olney with Game 7 of the 01 WS), but it works magnificently here. It makes for a very entertaining and brisk read that I was sorry to see end.
My only tiny nitpick involves the fact that since Bradley did have access to the original telecasts of the game, it would have been nice if some more of the comments of the announcers had been interwoven into the narrative of the game action. And there are also some interesting stories about the broadcasts themselves too (Howard Cosell for instance, was officially part of ABC's baseball broadcast team, but deemed the playoff game taking place on a Monday insufficient reason to miss that evening's meaingless early regular season "Monday Night Football" broadcast). Also priceless was the moment where Phil Rizzuto found himself lingering in the Boston press room after finishing the 6th inning on radio, before heading back to the TV booth and letting out a burst of "Holy Cows!" when Dent homered....only to forget that he was still in the Boston press room, and telling Bill White on-air later that "I thought Frank Malzone was going to bite me on the ankle!" showing how much the Yankee-Red Sox rivalry played itself out in all corners of the ballpark that day!
Thanks again to Mr. Bradley for enriching the baseball literature on the Yankees-Red Sox of the late 70s by taking things to a new level. It gets my vote for what I know will be the best baseball book of the year for me.
Speaking as the author.... March 17, 2008
7 out of 9 found this review helpful
Thanks very much for that nice review, G. Haneke. You also give me a chance to mention that something did indeed go awry with that flap copy! So chalk that up to a production error, and the good folks at the Free Press will correct it ASAP.
Never fear--the facts are right in the book itself.
And thanks again for the compliment. I'm glad you enjoyed The Greatest Game.
Great book,but with one big mistake. March 17, 2008
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Terrific recounting of a great game and an exciting season. The one big flaw is that the author gets the date of the game wrong. It was played on October 2, not on October 4 as the dust jacket claims. How could an editor or a fact checker get something so basic so wrong? You have to wonder what else they missed!
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