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The Greatest Game.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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In 1978, the American League East division champion was determined by a one-game playoff, a taut battle between the Yankees and the Red Sox at Fenway Park. Bradley gives a pitch-by-pitch breakdown of the Boston loss (a three-run homer by Bucky Dent in the top of the seventh cemented the Yankees' lead), and an account of the volatile season preceding it. At a time when pro baseball was making the ...

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