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Title: Forgotten plays led to famous conclusions: Carlton Fisk's historic game-winning homer in Game 6 of the 1975 World Series overshadowed Bernie Carbo's significant game-tying blast.
Author: Hal Bodley
Publication: Baseball Digest (Magazine/Journal)
Date: October 1, 2006
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Volume: 65Issue: 8Page: 36(3)

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Chapters: Sam Fuld, Carlton Fisk, Chris Carpenter, Mike Flanagan, Red Rolfe, Rich Gale, Arlie Latham, Ike Van Zandt, Chad Paronto, Stan Williams, Bob Tewksbury, Matt Tupman, Brian Wilson, Jim Mcnamara, Phil Plantier, John Connor, George Haddock, Joe Lefebvre, Kevin Romine, Tom Gunning, Lefty Tyler, Tom Padden, Rob Woodward, Bob Savage, Bob Smith, Ray Thomas, Scott Fredrickson, Bob Whitcher, Fred Brown, Leon Chagnon, Dick Scott, Bert Weeden, Dike Varney, Ray Dobens, Libe Washburn, Harry Bemis, Don Florence. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 137. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Samuel "Sam" Babson Fuld (born November 20, 1981, in Durham, New Hampshire) is an American left-handed Major League Baseball outfielder for the Chicago Cubs. Despite being afflicted with diabetes since the age of 10, Fuld began his baseball career by twice batting .600 in high school, during which time Baseball America ranked him 19th in the country. He then played college baseball at Stanford, where he was a perennial All American, set the school record for career runs scored, and set the College World Series record for career hits. Drafted by the Cubs in 2004, he made his major league debut in 2007. He became a fan favorite for his acrobatic defense. Fuld, who is Jewish, is the son of Kenneth Fuld (Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Professor of Psychology at the University of New Hampshire) and (New Hampshire State Senator) Amanda Merrill. He got his start playing baseball hitting wiffle balls with his grandmother when he was three years old. Instead of carrying around the typical teddy bear or worn-down baby blanket when he was young, he carried a book of baseball stats with him all the time, like a security blanket." "He was only 5 or 6 and he was already computing batting averages and ERAs,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=3072445 ... Read more

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It had already been one of the most remarkable years in baseball history, but the moment Bucky Dent's seemingly harmless fly ball cleared the Green Monster at Fenway Park on the afternoon of October 2, the 1978 season became, what some people still consider today, the most dramatic in the sport's glorious lineage.

The Yankees were the defending World Series champion, having won the 1977 championship despite a season of titanic bickering, primarily surrounding ego maniac Reggie Jackson, grumpy Thurman Munson, irascible manager Billy Martin, and bombastic owner George Steinbrenner. With diamond-studded rings on their fingers, there was hope that things would quiet down at Yankee Stadium in 1978, but a slow start, coupled with a remarkably sizzling pace set by the Red Sox, had the Bronx burning once again.

Meanwhile, over in Boston, the perpetually heartbreaking Red Sox seemed primed to end their supposed curse, and a World Series title - the first since 1918 - appeared imminent. With a stacked lineup led by Jim Rice, Carlton Fisk, Fred Lynn and Carl Yastrzemski, plus an improved pitching staff that had been bolstered by the additions of Mike Torrez and Dennis Eckersley, the Red Sox roared out of the gate and by the middle of July, the Yankees were 14 games behind their fierce rival.

And then the tide began to turn. Steinbrenner fired Martin and replaced him with Bob Lemon, and the Yankees began to click just as the Red Sox began to crack. The Yankees caught and passed Boston in near miraculous fashion, but appropriately, the two teams wound up dead even on the final day of the regular season, necessitating a one-game playoff to determine the American League East division champion.

On that never-to-be-forgotten day at Fenway, Dent's home run gave the Yankees the lead, and they held off a late charge by the Red Sox to win the game. That kick-started their surge to what became a second consecutive World Series title, and left the Red Sox and their tortured fans wallowing in grief, as well as disbelief.

In The Ultimate Season, author Sal Maiorana takes his readers on an exciting day-by-day journey through that amazing baseball epoch, and he has created three fictional characters who tell the story in 21st-century blog style fashion.

Zack Lassiter is a 43-year-old New York City-born sports writer who is the AL East correspondent for the weekly magazine, The Baseball Times. Zack's responsibility is covering the division's seven teams, though in 1978, for obvious reasons, he spent much of his time chronicling the exploits of the Yankees and Red Sox.

Maria Martinez is a 19-year-old native of the Bronx, the latest in a long line of Martinez Yankee fans dating back to her grandfather who migrated from Puerto Rico to New York in the early 1920s and became a fan of the Babe Ruth/Lou Gehrig Yankees. Maria is a nursing student at New York University as well as a Yankee Stadium vendor who just may be the most passionate Yankee fan in her demographic.

Finally, there is Jimmy O'Reilly, a ruddy-faced, beer-bellied, 58-year-old bartender who is the proprietor of O'Reilly's Pourhouse in the heart of South Boston. Since taking over the joint after the death of his father in 1960, Jimmy has been pouring drinks to his regular band of patrons and extolling the virtues of everything in Boston sports, with a special soft spot for his beloved Red Sox.

Through the eyes of Zack, Maria and Jimmy, readers will be transported back to 1978, and thrust right into the middle of all the drama and excitement of a baseball season that captivated a nation at a time when baseball was still this country’s national pastime.

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