Baseball's Greatest Series Yankees, Mariners, and the 1995 Matchup That Changed History
Fr. 48.90
inkl. gesetzl. MwSt.Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Format
Kopierschutz
Ja
Family Sharing
Ja
Text-to-Speech
Nein
Erscheinungsdatum
15.01.2010
Verlag
Rutgers University PressSeitenzahl
352 (Printausgabe)
Dateigröße
2154 KB
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9780813549132
This division series was not simply about two teams playing five postseason games. It was about Ken Griffey Jr., Lou Piniella, Buck Showalter, Gene Michael, Jim Leyritz, Randy Johnson, Wade Boggs, Tony Fernandez, Pat Kelly, Dion James, Darryl Strawberryùand many others who changed the course of baseball history . . . A team playing to keep baseball alive in the Pacific Northwest A manager who was literally managing for his job A New York sports icon who for one week reminded everybody of the dominating player he had been a decade earlier
Chris Donnelly''s replay of this entire season reminds readers that it was a time when grown men cried their eyes out after defeat, and others, just a few hundred feet away, poured beer and champagne over one another while 57,000 people in Seattle''s Kingdome celebrated. Five games they were. Five games that reminded people, after the devastating players'' strike in 1994, how great a game baseball is because comebacks are always possible, no matter how great the obstacles may seem.
From Don Mattingly''s only postseason home run, which caused a near riot, to Edgar Martinez''s legendary eleventh inning series-clinching double, Donnelly chronicles the earlier struggles of both teams during the 1980s, their mid-1990s resurgence, all five heart-stopping games of the series, and the dramatic and long-lasting effects of Seattle''s victory. Simply stated, Baseball''s Greatest Series hits a home run.
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