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Originally Posted by Harliduck
Ive got both of those books in my collection...I love reading baseball player biographies, I think I have about 30 on the book shelf. I travel a lot for work and have lots of plane time for reading. Still one of my favorites was Rico Petrocelli's book on the Sox of 67...just loved that one, and I'm not a big Sox fan. I guess where they came from that year gives a lowly Mariners fan something to hope for. But the Campy book is great...
Glad to hear some are enjoying the link...my 11 year old who is infatuated with Jackie Robinson was in awe watching him actually play "live".
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John, the "Impossible Dream Red Sox" (taken from the song, "The Impossible Dream", the most popular song from the 1965 broadway musical, "Man of La Mancha", and was sung for years afterward by various artists) is a great story. My White Sox were battling them for the pennant in '67, but come September they folded badly. Of the four AL teams contending for the pennant, the Sox wound up fourth!
The main reason I wanted to post is to say that YOUTUBE offers several games from that great '52 Series. In Game 1, the first time Jackie Robinson came to bat, he blasted a homer off the Yanks' ace, Allie Reynolds. I mention this just in case you two hadn't seen that one. It would be easy to locate since it was early in the telecast.
Regards, Brian Powell