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Kevin Cook¿is the author of
Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink, the award-winning¿
Tommy’s Honor¿(the basis for the feature film),¿and¿
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America. He is a former senior editor at¿
Sports Illustrated.
List of contents
Prologue: Mortals
Part One: Six Lives
1. Young Old Burt
2. The Fabulous Breaker Boy
3. Zenith
4. Cookie and the Flea
5. Bev and Snuffy
6. They'll Manage
7. The Year All Hell Broke Loose
Part Two: Seven Games
8. Sheer Hysteria
9. A Horrendous Afternoon
10. Bums' Rush
11. The Twenty-Seventh Out
12. First and Second Guesses
13. The Robbery
14. Battle of the Bronx
Part Three: Six Futures
15. The Year After Hell Broke Loose
16. Late Innings
17. Try, Try Again
18. Warning Signs
19. This Is Cooperstown
20. Hero and Hero
21. Back Back Back
Epilogue: The Things They Left Behind
A Note on Sources
Acknowledgments
Index
About the author
Kevin Cook is the author of
Ten Innings at Wrigley: The Wildest Ballgame Ever, with Baseball on the Brink, the award-winning
Tommy’s Honor (the basis for the feature film), and
Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America. He is a former senior editor at
Sports Illustrated.
Summary
The epic World Series between the Yankees and the Dodgers and the six men whose lives were changed forever.
