Word: homeruns
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Bill "Whoops" Buckner, Dave Henderson (of dramatic homerun fame), and Kangeroo Court judge Don Baylor were all recently traded to make way for the youth movement at Fenway, but this is pretty much the same bunch of guys who came within one strike from winning a World Series last year...
...Most know that pitcher Al Dowling served up Hank Aaron's record-breaking 715th homerun. But can you name the pitcher who surrendered the homer that tied Aaron with the immortal Babe at number...
...remember his monstrous homer two years ago in St. Louis off of John Tudor in extra innings to keep the Mets in the Pennant race. Or his homer in Game Seven of the 1986 World Series? Last year, Strawberry had 27 regular-season round-trippers and finished third in homerun ratio (he had 5.68 homeruns for every 100 at bats). The Phillips's Mike Schmidt finished, but can you name the other slugger who topped Strawberry's mark...
...made Bostonians forget about the 1975 World Series loss. They made everybody forget the nightmare of '78 and little Bucky Dent's pop-fly homerun...
...Alexander dwells far too much on what happened between the foul lines rather than the action outside the ballpark. He paints an engrossing picture of a game in transition from the dead-ball era of stolen bases to the Ruthian age of the homerun, but never really shows the effects this had on baseball as a business, except to detail the contract feuds between Cobb and Tiger owner Frank Navin. He portrays Cobb as an ugly racist, but doesn't ever explore what Cobb thought about the desegregation of the game after he retired. Answering these questions might have provided...