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 enlarge | Author: Richard Bradley
Publisher: Free Press
Category: Book
List Price: $25.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 251324
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.1
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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Condition: 1st edition 2008 hardcover. Tight & clean.
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 Excellant Book on The Greatest Rivalry in Sports May 16, 2008
I just finished "The Greatest Game" a few minutes ago & i so enjoyed it's contents i had to author a quick review. In short, this was the best book on the 1978 playoff race between the Bombers & the Bosox that i've read yet & i'm an absolute fanatic when it comes to anything Yankees-Redsox. The author does a great job of alternating pitch by pitch, inning by inning accounts with a larger overview of the season and the exciting pennant race that led up to the game. One of the highlights of the book is that it contains fascinating new insights into players and managers who i previously felt pretty familiar with. Great Baseball Book!
Sports as History through a Diamond Classic May 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Richard Bradley provides enough fresh angles on the classic 1978 one-game playoff between the Yankees and Red Sox that it feels like playing caroms off the Green Monster for the first time.
Delving into sports as history, Bradley avoids the cliches like simply retelling box score statistics or relying on rehashed recollections and truly delivers a clutch performance in making the legends come to life.
As great as the ending of the regular season - which led to this stunning climax for supremacy of the East Division (third place Milwaukee would have won the West by one game) - Bradley's account places makes the diamond classic a spectacular gem.
Terrific April 3, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
Longtime Red Sox fan here.I remember all too well the '78 season and that agonizing playoff game.The book is well written and researched and to get Carl Yastrzemski to talk as much as he did is a coup.I did find two mistakes,one factual and one grammatical.Reggie Cleveland of the Red Sox was a pitcher,not an outfielder (p.51),and on page 253 when writing about the death of Thurman Munson the text reads "to low" when of course it should be too low.Beyond that though I loved reading this book,even if the end was not to my satisfaction. :)
The Last Great Pennant Race March 31, 2008
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
This is a very enjoyable book which all baseball fans will find gripping and thrilling, much the way the 1978 race shaped up. The book does a very good job at shaping the cultures and idiosyncrasies of both the Red Sox and Yankees and how that helped to shape a tumultuous pennant race. The author does a great deal of painting baseball's changing landscape and how this was impacting both teams as well as the game at large. Also, the book does a great job of shaping the final game around these events as the Red Sox /Yankees playoff game was as dramatic and exciting as the season, coming down to the final batter.
Obviously Red Sox & Yankees fans will find this book more interesting then other fans but regardless the book is worth the read for the moments of excitement and the feelings of nostalgia it is bound to bring up for a simpler time in the national pastime.
how did you miss..... March 31, 2008
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
the fact that the game was played on the holiest of days for jews... yom kippur
my father was ballistic that my brother and i and two friends went crazy over dent's home run and the final result, on a day when we weren't supposed to be watching television
great account otherwise
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