02525cam a2200325 i 4500 380372659 TxAuBib 20190531120000.0 181107s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018047864 9781250182036 28.00 1250182034 28.00 eng rda TxAuBib rda Cook, Kevin, 1956- Ten innings [BOOK] : the wildest ballgame ever, with baseball on the brink / Kevin Cook. 10 innings. New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2019. xi, 253 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Starting lineups and rosters -- Prologue: May 1979 -- National league least -- The Cubs: foiled again -- The Phillies: unloved losers -- Ten innings -- Legacies -- Miracle on Broad Street -- Kong vs. the media -- Disgrace under pressure -- Moore and the split -- Ball in the family -- Epilogue: money, metrics, and music -- Box score. 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. Provided by publisher. 20190531. Chicago Cubs (Baseball team) History 20th century. Wrigley Field (Chicago, Ill) History 20th century. Philadelphia Phillies (Baseball team) History 20th century. Baseball United States History 20th century.