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A carregar... Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime (original 2009; edição 2010)por Mark Frost (Autor)
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Carlton Fisk's game-winning home run in the bottom of the eleventh inning in the sixth game of the 1975 World Series has been one of the most iconic image in sports history. Mark Frost's wonderful book details every pitch that came before it in the game, and in between pitches he weaves the backstory of how it all fit together to bring all the participants to October 21, 1975 at Fenway. It's a well-told narrative, much like listening to Vin Scully tell a long story during an unforgettable ball game in his prime. The ending isn't a surprise, of course-- that's the allure of the book-- but there are plenty of surprises and enough trivial tidbits scattered throughout to keep you engaged. How do Dick Cheney, Monday Night Football, Bruce Springsteen, and Saturday Night Live all relate to this one game? Mark Frost sets the drama very well, but doesn't linger. Even the description of Fisk's game-winner is relatively brief, like the home-run itself. But the larger context is lengthy, such as how this was the last World Series played before free agency changed the game -- for better and worse-- forever. Frost covers the broadcasters, players, coaches and managers, and even Red Sox team owner in detail. It's a worthwhile read for any baseball fan, especially those old enough to remember the game that caused church bells throughout New England to ring at 12:34 in the morning. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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Boston, Tuesday, October 21, 1975. The Red Sox and the Cincinnati Reds have endured an excruciating three-day rain delay. Tonight, at last, they will play Game Six of the World Series. Leading three games to two, Cincinnati hopes to win it all; Boston is desperate to stay alive. But for all the anticipation, nobody could have predicted what a classic it would turn out to be: an extra-innings thriller, created by one of the Big Red Machine's patented comebacks and the Red Sox's improbable late-inning rally; clutch hitting, heart-stopping defensive plays, and more twists and turns than a Grand Prix circuit, climaxed by one of the most famous home runs in baseball history that ended it in the twelfth. Here are all the inside stories of some of that era's biggest names in sports: Johnny Bench, Luis Tiant, Sparky Anderson, Pete Rose, Carl Yastrzemski--eight Hall of Famers in all--as well as sportscasters and network execs, cameramen, umpires, groundskeepers, politicians, and fans who gathered in Fenway that extraordinary night. Game Six is an unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at what is considered by many to be the greatest baseball game ever played--remarkable also because it was about so much more than just balls and strikes. This World Series marked the end of an era; baseball's reserve clause was about to be struck down, giving way to the birth of free agency, a watershed moment that changed American sports forever. In bestselling author Mark Frost's talented hands, the historical significance of Game Six becomes every bit as engrossing as its compelling human drama. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The setup: Boston and Cincinnati are in Game Six of the World Series, with Boston down three games to two. After a two-day rain delay, Game Six is on in Fenway Park.
Frost has a habit of alternating paragraphs describing the action on the field with paragraphs about one of the players, or the history of the teams, or the situation in America and Boston in 1975. This works when his background information is substantial enough to take a few pages. It doesn't work when all he has is an anecdote about a player and he splits it into two disjointed paragraphs rather then a single cohesive one. But I got used to the rhythm - it is sort of like the commentary sportscasters provide in the moments between action, and that may be completely intentional on Frost's part.
Frost believes - and, after reading the book, I agree - that Bernie Carbo's game-tying home run was the play of the game, and so doesn't write Carlton Fisk's game-winning home run nearly as passionately. Frost seems irritated that Fisk was dubbed the hero of the game, and Carbo completely overlooked, but his narrative choice still made the ending of the game a letdown. And then, of course, the Red Sox self-destructed in Game Seven, because that's what they do. Game Seven needed to be either written more interestingly or addressed much more briefly - a sort of highlights reel instead of a play-by-play. I found that the most boring chapter.
I also didn't understand what the "triumph" of the title was. Yes, Game Six was watched by more television viewers than ever before and ushered in the era of night games, and made a lot of money for the television networks, but the final (long) chapter is all about how both teams collapsed in the following years, salaries started getting astronomical, fans didn't care about the players anymore, and then steroids took over. It didn't seem at all triumphal to me.
I'm not sorry I read this book, but I don't feel that it was written for me. It was written for hard-core Boston or Cincinnati fans old enough to have been watching games in 1975. Occasionally a bit of a slog for someone else. And the playing down of Tom Yawkey's (and Boston's) racism to the extent that Frost did really made me uncomfortable.