1978

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David Krell is the author of 1962: Baseball and America in the Time of JFK (Nebraska, 2021), Do You Believe in Magic? Baseball and America in the Groundbreaking Year of 1966, and The Fenway Effect: A Cultural History of the Boston Red Sox (Nebraska, 2024).

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David Krell chronicles in novelistic detail the notable achievements of some of baseball’s greatest players of 1978, along with some of the national pastime’s quirkiest moments, to capture an extraordinary year in baseball.

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Acknowledgments

1. The Best Interests of Baseball: January
2. “A Chance to Be Absolutely Unbelievable”: February
3. Goodbye Dark, My Old Friend: March
4. Move Over, Baby Ruth, Here Comes Reggie: April
5. Kingman’s Performance and Lasorda’s Outrage: May
6. Louisiana Lightning and Greased Lightning: June
7. Melodrama in the Bronx: July
8. A Rose by Any Other Game: August
9. The Boston Massacre: September
10. The World Series: October
11. A Tale of Two Sparkys: November
12. It’s a Bird . . . It’s a Plane . . . It’s a Blockbuster: December
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