The Greatest Game

[Over43]

If you like baseball, and remember 1978, Richard Daley has written a new baseball history called The Greatest Game. It is about the 163rd game the Yankees and Red Sox played in early October 1978 to settle their regular season tie.

Daley does a good job weaving in the season story with an inning by inning account of game 163. The game is most famous for Bucky Dents 7th inning homerun that gave the Yankees an eventual 5-4 win, and an eventual World Series win.

The language can be rough in spots, especially when the Red Sox players recall Bucky Dent's homerun.

The ending is poingant, particularly as Daley revisits the death of Thurman Munson 10 months later in a plane crash.

But for those of you who are survivors of the 60's, 70's and 80's this will bring back some memories.

O43

[Palerider]

If you like baseball, and remember 1978, Richard Daley has written a new baseball history called The Greatest Game. It is about the 163rd game the Yankees and Red Sox played in early October 1978 to settle their regular season tie.

Daley does a good job weaving in the season story with an inning by inning account of game 163. The game is most famous for Bucky Dents 7th inning homerun that gave the Yankees an eventual 5-4 win, and an eventual World Series win.

The language can be rough in spots, especially when the Red Sox players recall Bucky Dent's homerun.

The ending is poingant, particularly as Daley revisits the death of Thurman Munson 10 months later in a plane crash.

But for those of you who are survivors of the 60's, 70's and 80's this will bring back some memories.

O43

I may have to look for this book.....I can remember watching this playoff game ....it seems like yesterday....:)