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Subtitle: the Boston Red Sox, a historic game, and a divided city
By: Bill Reynolds.
Publisher: New American Library
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780451226020
Subjects: Boston Red Sox (Baseball team) -- History; New York Yankees (Baseball team) -- History; Baseball -- Social aspects -- Massachusetts -- Boston; Sports rivalries -- United States -- History; Boston (Mass.) -- Social conditions -- 20th century; Boston (Mass.) -- Race relations
Other titles: Nineteen seventy-eight
Description: The 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 leave the other cursed for almost a quarter of a century. In this book, award-winning sports columnist Bill Reynolds tells the story of the team and the players at this pivotal moment. This cultural history takes readers through the social issues that divided Boston that summer, and masterfully depicts their influence on one game beyond the realm of sports--From publisher description.