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Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America's Pastime |  | Author: Mark Frost
Publisher: Hyperion
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
Pages: 416
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.6 x 1.3
ISBN: 1401323103
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357646
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Publication Date: September 22, 2009
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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. Praise for The Match "Mark Frost, author of one of the sport's all-time great books, The Greatest Game Ever Played, produces another wonderful telling of a true tale . . . in The Match."
--Chicago Tribune "Frost captures an elusive magic in this improbable matchup and what it meant for those who played and witnessed it."
--Publishers Weekly "It's difficult to beat a good golf book, be it a good yarn or a picture book . . . The golf is spectacular, the course more so, the descriptions luminous."
--USA Today
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 Game Six...occasionally January 24, 2010
David Hewitt (Philadelphia, PA)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Mark Frost ought to have paid closer attention to the title of his own book: "Game Six" suffers for the author's incessant departures from the actual contest at hand. Context is one thing, yes: obviously, knowledge of player and team backgrounds enhances our ability to ascertain the dramatic scope at hand, and to his credit Frost does a remarkably dimensional job of introducing us to these people and their circumstances leading up to and beyond the moments depicted within the course of a three-hour ballgame. Unfortunately, Frost often extends well out of the realm of baseball, unnecessarily invoking national headlines from the general time period of the mid-1970s and for the most part failing to convincingly integrate them with the purported subject of the book. Too frequently, the narrative is hamstrung by Frost's ill-advised ambitiousness in attempting to follow the model of David Halberstam's "October 1964" - or is it just an uncurbed desire to throw out his personal interpretations of cultural and political events endemic to his youth, replete with flippant political evaluations of the Boston busing controversy and gallingly indulgent, apropos-of-nothing references to Bruce Springsteen's "kick-ass chops". The most absurd juxtaposition occurs when Frost intersperses play-by-play of a Pete Rose at-bat with a Wikipedia-style synopsis of the Symbionese Liberation Army.
Frost also has an irritating proclivity to play favorites. Likes: Sparky Anderson, Dick Stockton. Dislikes: Darrell Johnson, Joe Garagiola. Hey, it's your book, Mark, you get to do what you want with it. Personally, I find the undisguised biases of an author attempting to render a second-hand account to be arrogant and distasteful. I want to read about the people and the plays that comprised the performance of this game, not what *you* think of them. (Least of all did I need to be bombarded with the superfluous, cliche-ridden critique of all the evils that have ruined baseball since the Puritan year of 1975, which concludes the text with an ugly exclamation mark on Frost's inability to rein himself in.) Occasionally, the presumptuousness of Frost's novelistic re-creations gets a little out of hand, such as when he suggests that Johnson was "perhaps more than a little intimidated" by Luis Tiant on the mound when considering to lift the headstrong pitcher from Game Three. Someone *really* needs to remind this guy that he wasn't actually there and maybe should have seen fit to not get into the heads of those he didn't interview, unless he is in fact deliberately and consciously in the business of character assassination.
It's no accident that Frost dedicates his book to Vin Scully, "baseball's master storyteller"; this book reads much like a Scully broadcast, with the game itself almost receiving second billing alongside the droning prattle of tangential commentary. And indeed there is an excellent story to be told here, if one is willing to patiently locate and piece it together amidst the exhaustive, distracting layers of subplots. "Game Six" is admittedly more engaging and lively on the whole than I've ever found Scully himself to be - but it shouldn't be considered complimentary to refer to it as easily the most tangential baseball book ever written.
 Thanks for the memories January 14, 2010
Muffin Man (Plano, Texas)
As I have been a Cincinnati Reds fan since the late 50's, I really enjoyed this book. Frost's writing style is enjoyable and reads more like a novel than non-fiction. It was hard to put down and brought back some great memories.
I do feel the book was written with the typical emotional slant towards the Red Sox. At times I thought I was reading a biography of Luis Tiant. Frost portrays the Reds team as an arrogant corporate entity, while the Red Sox were caring individuals. The reader gets the impression that the Red Sox outplayed the Reds but luck just wasn't on their side. Frost says Lynn, Evans, and Tiant belong in the Hall of Fame, but never mentions Concepcion in that group.
Also the book occasionally drifts off into politics, which I felt was inappropriate.
HOWEVER, despite these small shortcoming I thoroughly enjoyed Game Six and would recommend it to any baseball fan
Great to read about, even better to have seen! January 13, 2010
Roland R. Parent (Fort Lauderdale, Florida United States)
My how time flies! I still wonder at the fact that this game was played almost thirty-five years ago, and that I had the good fortune to have seen it on TV and it still retains a lasting imprint on my mind as one of the greatest games I ever saw. But now, thanks to author Mark Frost, I have been able to revisit almost every minor detail of the game that had slipped away.
I admit to being a life long Boston Red Sox fan, and yes I am one of those old fashioned people who still believes the World Series is the greatest show in all of sports, so a critic of the critic may not agree with my assessment, but I wish the game was still played the way it was in 1975. There were obviously smaller salaries, there were at least a few day games (weekends) played in the Series, there was far greater longevity on one's team, as evidenced by Carl Yastrzemski, Dwight Evans, Johnny Bench and Sparky Anderson, in the pre-free agency days, there were no baggy pants down to the ankles and players still wore stirrups, and there were no steroids to distort the record books, although it comes as no surprise that there was smoke blowing around the game. Commissioner Bowie Kuhn was often criticized during his tenure, but made the right decisions regarding rain delays leading up to "Game Six." Compared to the dreadful decisions made by today's commissioner and the TV networks it is doubtful that anything like the suspense leading to game six could ever be repeated today.
Mark Frost does a praiseworthy job of reporting the game pitch-by-pitch and out-by-out, but often gives more details than this baseball fan needed to know. The pitches, outs and innings are interwoven with biographical information about each individual player, managers, announcers and even the umpires. The news of the day is also included with unwelcome appearances by Jimmy Carter and Richard M. Nixon. Fidel Castro also makes an appearance regarding how Cuban politics affected Luis Tiant's career. The book could have been titled "The Life and Times of Game Six."
The history of the greater game, the "other six" 1975 games, ownerships, Babe Ruth, and what happens during the subsequent thirty-five years are all touched upon. The individual players were household names then and remain some of my personal favorites of all time: Yaz, Fisk, Evans, Freddy Lynn, Joe Morgan, Sparky Anderson and yes, Pete Rose who played every game with maddening intensity. Even the NBC broadcasters evoked nostalgia. Maybe NBC should try baseball again, they did it so well back in 1975. The book also includes two good photo sections.
Was this the greatest World series game or greatest World Series ever played? Who can say? There have been so many great ones and the answer is so subjective. I will say that it was the greatest game I ever saw, but perhaps that is because of the iconic images of Carlton Fisk's (my favorite player) 12th inning home run. Ironically I felt like the author spent less time talking about Fisk than Johnny Bench and other players from both teams. Fisk was not included in the acknowledgments in the back of the book. Could it be that the man who who made the final run of the game did not contribute to the author's effort?
There is a vast catalog of good baseball books, more than any other sport. This one belongs high on that list. The author has done a skillful job.
Too much repetition December 26, 2009
Jerry Graff (Thornton, Colorado United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are some good nuggets of information I'd never known about the game and both teams in this book, and there are certainly worse books out there.
But: the at-bat, by at-bat approach to the book just didn't work for me. I mean, do I really care that much who made the second out in the third inning and how it happened? Also, there are too many occasions where Frost repeated himself. Better editing would have been nice. For instance, why do we always have to get the full name of the player every page or two? Wouldn't "Bench" be sufficient on second reference, two pages after we'd just read the name "Johnny Bench?" How many guys named "Bench" were in that series?
In short, too much clutter in this book, not enough insight. I can watch the tape of the game anytime if I want to know what happened on every out. A book like this, I want stuff I never knew about.
 Game Six December 17, 2009
B. Peiffer (Downers Grove, IL USA)
Excellent book. Service in receiving the book was terrific. I am a very satisfied customer. Thanks.
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