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    Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
    Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
    Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink
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    Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink

    Written by Kevin Cook

    Narrated by Barry Abrams

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    It was a Thursday at Chicago's Wrigley Field, mostly sunny with the wind blowing out. Nobody expected an afternoon game between the Philadelphia Phillies and Chicago Cubs on May 17, 1979, to be much more than a lazy early-season contest matching two teams heading in opposite directions-the first-place Phillies and the Cubs, those lovable losers-until they combined for thirteen runs in the first inning. "The craziest game ever," one player called it. "And then the second inning started."

    Ten Innings at Wrigley is Kevin Cook's vivid account of a game that could only have happened at this ballpark, in this era, with this colorful cast of heroes and heels: Hall of Famers Mike Schmidt and Bruce Sutter, surly slugger Dave Kingman, hustler Pete Rose, unlucky Bill Buckner, scarred Vietnam vet Garry Maddox, troubled relief pitcher Donnie Moore, clubhouse jester Tug McGraw, and two managers pulling out what was left of their hair.

    It was the highest-scoring ballgame in a century, and much more than that. Bringing to life the run-up and aftermath of a contest the New York Times called "the wildest in modern history," Cook reveals the human stories behind the game-and how money, muscles and modern statistics were about to change baseball forever.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMay 7, 2019
    ISBN9781977343796
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    Kevin Cook

    Kevin Cook’s previous book, Tommy’s Honour, was shortlisted for the William Hill Prize, and although it didn’t win, the Daily Telegraph called it ‘the stand-out book on a strong short list’. He writes for numerous magazines and has appeared on ESPN and CNN. He lives in New York.

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    • 5/5
      Wonderful book! Not only does it cover this amazing game but it goes into depth on both these clubs past to present. Great narration and story. Highly recommended!
    • 5/5
      Started reading this at lunchtime today and couldn't put it down. It is simply fantastic. While the author provides a great inning-by-inning account of the extraordinary 23-22 game that took place on a windy day in Chicago's Wrigley Field, it is his delving into so many other stories that makes the book so great. First, we get amusing histories of the futility of both franchises over the years. Cook also provides insights into the personalities of many of the major players that day, such as the Phillies' Bob Boone, Pete Rose, and Tug McGraw and the Cubs' Bill Buckner and Dave Kingman. The saddest story, of course, is Cubs' pitcher Donnie Moore, still struggling to find the stardom that he would briefly achieve, before a tragic ending that narrowly avoided being even worse. Baseball was on the brink, as the author says; salaries were soaring--but the steroid era hadn't quite arrived yet, and the players were normal size men, who still practiced lesser vices, such as popping too many pills and drinking too much. Cook has done a wonderful job of putting it all together into a book that, for a moment at least, made me care about baseball again.